Truth Quotes

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

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

No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Canto

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Maitri Upanishads

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Johann von Goethe

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Stephen Wolfram

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Pope John Paul II

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Author Unknown

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Spencer Churchill

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas H. Huxley

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

Sir John A. MacDonald

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Prove

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Ausonius

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

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