Truth Quotes
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.Georges Braque
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.Samuel Johnson
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.Hunter S. Thompson
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.Cuban Prove
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Conan Doyle
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.Thomas Jefferson
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.H. G. Wells, 1903
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.Thomas Sowell
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.Og Mandino
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.Margaret Fulle
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
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
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
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.William Blake
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.Rene Descartes
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
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
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.John Stuart Mill
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
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Jim
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andr Maurois
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.Jane Austen, Emma
