Truth Quotes

Vaclav havel - the truth is not simply what you think it is; it...
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
Laertius diogenes - democritus says, but we know nothing really for...
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
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
In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Robert Armstrong
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.
Stanley Baldwin
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.
I Ching
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
No one is entitled to the truth.
E. Howard Hunt
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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
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
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.
George Gordon Byron