Truth Quotes

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
Jerome k jerome - it is always the best policy to tell the truth,...
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. Wells, 1903
Clive staples lewis - even in literature and art, no man who bothers...
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Cicero
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
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
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
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
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
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luthe
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
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
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
Truth is shorter than fiction.
Irving Cohen
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke