Truth Quotes
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".
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
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.Francis Bacon
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
You never find yourself until you face the truth.Pearl Bailey
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.Philip Guedalla
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.Cuban Prove
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.Hans Reichenbach
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.Charles Sanders Pierce
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.Jefferson Davis
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.I Ching
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.G. K. Chesterton
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Sherlock Holmes
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.Anthony de Mello
Ridicule is the best test of truth.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.John Locke
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.The "Xlib Programming Manual".
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
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
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
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 04, 2004
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Conan Doyle
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.Edward Albee
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
