Truth Quotes

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas H. Huxley

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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

Stanley Baldwin

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

Sherlock Holmes

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

Oliver L. North

For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.

Henry Mille

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - Your abilities and your failings.

Grard Depardieu

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

American Prove

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Ashley Montagu

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Janos Arnay

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire