Truth Quotes
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.Sara Teasdale
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.Henry David Thoreau
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.Friedrich Nietzsche
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.Goldie Hawn
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
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.Sydney Harris
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.Alfred Adle
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles, Creusa
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.Unknown
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.Carl Jung
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.Johann von Goethe
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.Jeseph Joubert
There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.Alfred North Whitehead
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.Yiddish Prove
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.Elizabeth Jenkins
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.John Milton
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.Sir Thomas More
Truth fears no questions.Anonymous
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.Clarence Day
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
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.Samuel Butle
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.Alfred Alde
