Quotes about truth, verified at the source
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Telling the truth, seeking it, bearing it: these quotes about truth come from essayists, playwrights and poets. Each has been checked word for word in the original work.
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Formal
What use is sight to a person if light and darkness are the same to him?
Nothing is beautiful but the truth: the truth alone is lovable.
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
Funny
Inspiring
The sword tells truer news than books; its edge divides earnest action from play.
Short
No one conceals something without its appearing in slips of the tongue and the features of the face.
Your truth? No, the Truth; and come with me to seek it. Your own, keep it.
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