Truth Quotes

John keats - what the imagination seizes as beauty must be the...
Kahil gibran, spirits rebellious - they have exiled me now from their society and i...
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
Frederick the great - the greatest and noblest pleasure which men can...
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
Laertius Diogenes
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
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
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.
Hubert Humphrey
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Mille
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 425 Bible
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing