Truth Quotes
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest truths are the simplest.Augustus Hare
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
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.Samuel Butle
No one is entitled to the truth.E. Howard Hunt
Love truth but pardon error.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - LawDick Clark
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.George Meredith
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.Daisy Bates
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.Han Suyin
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.George Eliot
All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles, Creusa
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.Charles Richte
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.George Bernard Shaw
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
By doubting we come at truth.Cicero
The first casualty when war comes is truth.Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.John Milton
It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.Unknown
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.Edward R. Murrow
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.Ephesians 425 Bible
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.Hunter S. Thompson
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
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
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein