Truth Quotes

Mark twain - those who say truth is stranger than fiction have...
Henry david thoreau - rather than love, than money, than fame, give me...
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
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
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
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 never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Prove
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 Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 425 Bible
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
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 F. Kennedy
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
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".
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.
Calvin S. Hall