Truth Quotes

Charles peguy - a great philosophy is not one that passes final...
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoove
G. campbell - free and fair discussion will ever be found the...
Gilbert keith chesterton - truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction...
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
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
William James
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
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Cicero
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.
Unknown
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
Vaclav Havel
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Janos Arnay
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luthe
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Henry C. Blinn
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra