Truth Quotes

Edmund burke, a philosophical inquiry into the origins of the sublime and beatiful. - a man who works beyond the surface of things,...
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle
Robertson davies - the love of truth lies at the root of much humor....
Lillian hellman - cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the...
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S Truman
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)
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Pope John Paul II
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
Bill Chickering
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
Truth is shorter than fiction.
Irving Cohen
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
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
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
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.
Seneca
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Henry C. Blinn
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Sanders Pierce