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
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.Alfred Adle
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.Scarface
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.George Meredith
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.Unknown
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.Turkish prove
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
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
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 beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.La Rochefoucauld
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.Abraham Lincoln
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.Henry Ward Beeche
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.Spanish Prove
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.Sir William Drape
There are no whole truths; all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.Alfred North Whitehead
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.Bill Chickering
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.Albert Einstein
All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.Elizabeth Jenkins
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.Harry S Truman
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.G. K. Chesterton
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
