Truth Quotes

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Lillian hellman - cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the...
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
Denis diderot - i can be expected to look for truth but not to...
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.
Delores Seats
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.
John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love truth but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Rmy de Gourmont
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
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
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Clive Staples Lewis
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Prove
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Hosea Ballou
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver L. North
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Mille
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Luther Standing Bea
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
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
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.