Truth Quotes

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

D. A. Battista

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

Alfred Adle

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

Immanuel Kant

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Hazlitt

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

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.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Arthur Lynch

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Oliver L. North

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

C. C. Colton

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Warren Bennis

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, (attributed)

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley