Truth Quotes
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.Blaise Pascal
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
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
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.David Hume
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.Pearl Buck
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
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.Patrick Henry
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
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
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.Unknown
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.John Keats, -
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.American Prove
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.Thomas Paine
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.Jesus
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.Greek Prove
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.Publilius Syrus
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.James Agee
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.Paul Valery
