Truth Quotes

The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Hazlitt

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

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

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Stephen Covey

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - Your abilities and your failings.

Grard Depardieu

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel Cerbantes

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

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

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Jim

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K Jerome

Truth is subject to too much analysis.

Frank Herbert, Dune

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

William Butler Yeats

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

Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

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

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

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

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.

Delores Seats

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Mille

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark