Truth Quotes

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

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

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. Howard Hunt

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

Michael Pupin

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

Josh Billings

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Pope John Paul II

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Claude T Bissell

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 always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Lady Nancy Asto

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

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

David Hume

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

Turkish prove

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, -

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Truth is the safest lie.

Jewish Prove

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Kahlil Gibran

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

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

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".