Truth Quotes
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.J. Edgar Hoove
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.Robert J. Ringe
All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw
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
Love truth, and pardon error.Voltaire
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.Kahlil Gibran
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.Claude T Bissell
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.William Penn
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.James Agee
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Boh
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.Plato, Symposium
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
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.Theodore Harold White
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.Sir Walter Besant
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.William O. Douglas
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.George Orwell
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
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
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
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.George S. Arundale
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
