Truth Quotes
When in doubt, tell the truth.Mark Twain
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde
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
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.Sir John A. MacDonald
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.Albert Einstein
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.Laertius Diogenes
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.Clarence Darrow
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
I am the only truth I know.Jean Rhys
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.Elizabeth Bowen
The truth, as the light, makes blind.Albert Camus
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.Edward Hubbell Chaplin
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Martin Luthe
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.Jeanne - Marie Roland
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.Thomas Sowell
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
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
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
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.Buddha, The Dhammapada
You never find yourself until you face the truth.Pearl Bailey
Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.Chinese Prove
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.Michael Bakunin, God and State
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Maxwell Planck
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.Clive Staples Lewis
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.Sovereign
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
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.Calvin S. Hall
