Truth Quotes

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butle

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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

G. K. Chesterton

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

H. M. Tomlinson

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Denise Levertov

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Mohandas Ghandi

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Jeremy Collie

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

Henry David Thoreau

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law

Dick Clark

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

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

W. Clement Stone

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

Charles Gordon

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Theodore Harold White

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin