Truth Quotes

Mark twain - truth is more of a stranger than fiction....
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish prove
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
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
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Prove
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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Prove
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mohandas Ghandi
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf