Truth Quotes

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

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

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.

Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

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

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

William Butler Yeats

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

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Justice is the truth in action.

Jeseph Joubert

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Jesus

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Hazlitt

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Robert Frost

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Michael Bakunin, God and State

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn