Truth Quotes

Kurt vonnegut, interview, mcsweeneys. net - well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own,...
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
Buddha - there are only two mistakes one can make along...
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.
Lord Byron
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Mark Twain
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
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
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
The "Xlib Programming Manual".
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
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
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Fou
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Dr. Karl Menninge
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
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