Truth Quotes

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.

Kermit Eby

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Hosea Ballou

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

Jack Kerouac

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann