Truth Quotes

Muhammad ali - rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. they have...
Sir richard francis burton - all faith is false, all faith is true: truth is...
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
Friedrich nietzsche - who is better, they who promote truth over...
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.
Jean Valjean
The truth is always a compound of two half - Truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
Vaclav Havel
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplie
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
A. A. Hodge
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
C. C. Colton
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles A. Dana
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton, History of Science
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
Laertius Diogenes
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan Simpson
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony de Mello
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Aldous Huxley
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
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)
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
By doubting we come at truth.
Cicero