Truth Quotes

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

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Walter Cronkite

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Nozick

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

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

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

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

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

Henrik Ibsen

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.

Sara Teasdale

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.

O. G. Sutton

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andr Maurois

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

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

Kermit Eby

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli