Truth Quotes

Thomas jefferson, letter to nathaniel macon, january 12, 1819 - advertisements... contain the only truths to be...
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
H. M. Tomlinson
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.
Alfred Adle
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Alan Marshall Beck
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Truth is subject to too much analysis.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beeche
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw J. Lec
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
Claude T Bissell
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The truth is always a compound of two half - Truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan Simpson
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
Max Born
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
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant