Truth Quotes

Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire
Kahlil gibran - yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks...
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
Irving cohen - truth is shorter than fiction....
Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Alde
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.
Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Henry David Thoreau
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 truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplie
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Scarface
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Joe Moore
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.
Henry Mille
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
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
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.
Lord Byron
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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