Truth Quotes

Jean rhys - i am the only truth i know....
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Mark Twain
Bible, 1 corinthians 13: 4 - 7 - love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy,...
Denis diderot - i can be expected to look for truth but not to...
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Prove
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.
Eric Hoffe
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.
Joyce
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
The greatest truths are the simplest.
Augustus Hare
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K Jerome
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Henry David Thoreau
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
George Lucas
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish prove
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
Samuel Butle
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel Cerbantes
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luthe
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
Robert Frost
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.
Jean Valjean