Truth Quotes

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

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. Rowling

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Isaac Asimov

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplie

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Margaret Fulle

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Truth is a pathless land.

Krishnamurti

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Arab Prove

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

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 came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Oliver L. North

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

Michael Pupin

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Herbert Aga

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Mohandas Ghandi

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

G. Campbell

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Cicero

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Augustus Hare

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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