Truth Quotes

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Moliere

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

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

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Janos Arnay

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

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

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

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

It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.

Unknown

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

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

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

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Nozick

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.

Stanley Baldwin