Matthew Arnold Quotes on Truth
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but 'tis not true!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
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For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel - below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Why faintest thou! I wander'd till I died. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?'