Coventry Patmore: Quotes about the truth

Coventry Patmore was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on truth.

Coventry Patmore: 66 quotes1 like

“For want of me the world’s course will not fail;
When all its work is done the lie shall rot;
The truth is great and shall prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.”

Coventry Patmore

Magna est Veritas, p. 62.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity in them, for there is no truth; truth and simplicity being, as Aquinas says, the same thing.”

Coventry Patmore

Aurea Dicta VI, p. 4.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“Toleration, as it is now widely preached, may be a very one-sided bargain. It will not do to let falsehood and moral idiocy say to truth and honesty, "I will tolerate you if you will tolerate me."”

Coventry Patmore

Magna Moralia XLII, p. 193.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)