Truth Quotes

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.

Stanley Baldwin

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

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

Jim

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

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

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Maxwell Planck

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

D. A. Battista

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible, John 8: 32

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The Dhammapada

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.

Turkish Prove

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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 mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

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

Alfred Alde

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

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

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore