Truth Quotes
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.Kahlil Gibran
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.Og Mandino
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.Frank Herbert
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.Agnes Repplie
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 was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.Edgar Watson Howe
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.William Frank Buckley, Jr.
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.George Lucas
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.Jeremy Collie
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
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) Sign of Fou
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.William Blake
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.William Penn
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.Stephen Covey
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.Blaise Pascal
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.Unknown
There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.Alfred North Whitehead
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
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 opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Boh
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Kahlil Gibran
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
