Truth Quotes

Henri - fr? d? ric amiel - truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue,...
Author unknown - if the truth be known, most successes are built...
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
Chinese prove - if you are rich, you speak the truth if you are...
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Rmy de Gourmont
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Cicero
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Clive Staples Lewis
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.
G. Campbell
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
Richard D. Rosen
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
O. G. Sutton
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.
Seneca
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin