Truth Quotes
It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome K. Jerome
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.Johann von Goethe
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.Kahlil Gibran
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
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
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".
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.Jameson Green
Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.Albert Schweitze
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
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.Elizabeth Jenkins
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome K. Jerome
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
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
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....Mark Twain
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.Sir William Drape
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.Chinese Prove
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.Henry David Thoreau
I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.Stephen Wolfram
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.Hunter S. Thompson
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.Jeseph Joubert
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.Bernard M. Baruch
I am the only truth I know.Jean Rhys
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.Thomas Sowell
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.Anne Rice
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.G. Campbell
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
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
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.Aldous Huxley
