Truth Quotes
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.W. Somerset Maugham
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.Clarence Darrow
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.G. K. Chesterton
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.Warren Bennis
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.Samuel Johnson
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.Vincent McNa
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.Ephesians 425 Bible
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.Robert Brault
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.The Dhammapada
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
