Truth Quotes

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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
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Love truth, but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Prove
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
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
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.
Unknown
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
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 than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ashley Montagu
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
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
Lillian Hellman
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parke