Truth Quotes

Oliver wendell holmes - pretty much all the honest truth - telling there...
Francois marie arouet voltaire - philosopher a lover of wisdom, which is to say,...
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Goldie hawn - i must say the biggest lesson you can learn in...
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 that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Truth is the mother of hatred.
Ausonius
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
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - Your abilities and your failings.
Grard Depardieu
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Jeseph Joubert
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 F. Kennedy
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
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 tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Sovereign
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collie
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
Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.
Delores Seats
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver L. North
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire