Question

What does "the salt of truth" mean and where did it come from?

Answer 1

Two of us tutors have researched that phrase and haven't found an answer.

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Answer 2

We have done the same search with no clear results. Do you think it means something like "the bitter truth" ?

Some of the references point to the chapters Luke or James in the bible, but we cannot find the exact words there.

Thanks for helping us

Answer 3

This side of the pond the phrase "grain of salt of truth" is sometimes used to say there is no truth in a statement, sometimes shortened to "grain of truth".

My book of quotations has ony one entry for "salt of truth" and that is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh. My reading in the context is it is to mean someone who is inherently truthful.

Answer 4

Thanks!