Truth Quotes

Mohandas karamchand gandhi - truth never damages a cause that is just....
Philip dormer stanhope chesterfield - most maxim - mongers have preferred the...
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
Samuel butle - for truth is precious and divine too rich a pearl...
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish prove
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ashley Montagu
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Daisy Bates
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.
Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)
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
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 425 Bible
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.
Henri Frdric Amiel
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Jesus
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby