Truth Quotes

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

Arab Prove

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

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

Francis Bacon

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

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

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

Henry C. Blinn

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Jones

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.

Delores Seats

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Boh

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Ausonius

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton

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

Josh Billings

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

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Anthony de Mello

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

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

Francis Bacon

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

William James

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain