Truth Quotes
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.Cuban Prove
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Truth is not determined by majority vote.Doug Gwyn
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.David Hume
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.Turkish Prove
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
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
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.Anne Rice
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.Sir Richard Francis Burton
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.Sir Winston Churchill
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....Mark Twain
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
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.William James
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.George Bancroft
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
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.Lillian Hellman
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - LawDick Clark
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.Frank Herbert
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
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.G. K. Chesterton
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Max Planck
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
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
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.Leo Tolstoy
