Truth Quotes

William penn - truth often suffers more by the heat of its...
Charles gordon - if you tell the truth, you have infinite power...
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
Slovenian prove - speak the truth, but leave immediately after....
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
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
H. M. Tomlinson
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Thomas Jefferson
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Clive Staples Lewis
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Conan Doyle
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
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 that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 04, 2004
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
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.
Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)