Truth Quotes

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Arab Prove

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Robert Frost

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.

Henry Mille

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry George

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alde

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

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

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Augustus Hare

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

Great is truth, and all powerful.

Vulgate

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

George Lucas

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. Rowling

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Michael Bakunin, God and State

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson