Truth Quotes

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

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

Mother Jones

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Henry David Thoreau

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Rmy de Gourmont

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

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

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

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

Oscar Wilde

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. Howard Hunt

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Scarface