William Blake Quotes on Truth
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.
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When a Man has Married a Wife He finds out whether Her Knees & elbows are only glued together.
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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.
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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
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
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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.
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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.
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A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
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Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.
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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.