Truth Quotes
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Henrik David Boh
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Ridicule is the best test of truth.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.Publilius Syrus
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.Mahatma Gandhi
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.Travis Walton
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.Sir Winston Churchill
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.Oscar Wilde
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.Benjamin Disraeli
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.J. Edgar Hoove
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.Clarence Day
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.Plato, Symposium
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
Great is truth, and all powerful.Vulgate
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Conan Doyle
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Sir Winston Churchill
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.Seneca
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human