15 William Blake Quotes on Truth

William Blake quotes on truth

1. Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

6. Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.

11. When a Man has Married a Wife He finds out whether Her Knees & elbows are only glued together.

14. Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

18. When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do

55. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

57. Opposition is true Friendship.

71. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

80. Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

93. The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

96. Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees.

120. Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau. Mock on, mock on-'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again.

129. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

150. Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

151. This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.