“The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
Douglas Preston book Gideon's Sword
Source: Gideon's Sword
“The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.”
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Union United States Army officer 1833–1899Related quotes
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
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Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity
8:32
New Testament, Gospel of John
“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
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Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 5, p. 220
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Letter to those already residing in Pennsylvania (1681)
“We shall show you, bolsheviks, how to make a revolution.”
Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936) Spanish anarchist
Interview with Mikhail Koltsov (July 1936), as quoted inThe Spanish Civil War (1994) by Hugh Thomas, p. 305
Context: It is possible that only a hundred of us will survive, but with that hundred we shall enter Saragossa, beat Fascism and proclaim libertarian communism. I will be the first to enter Saragossa; I will proclaim the free commune. We shall subordinate ourselves neither at Madrid nor Barcelona, neither to Azaña nor Companys. If they wish, they can live in peace with us; if not, we shall go to Madrid … We shall show you, bolsheviks, how to make a revolution.
“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life