Truth Quotes

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.
Henry Mille
Friedrich nietzsche - all credibility, all good conscience, all...
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Robert frost - anything more than the truth would be too much....
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
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
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
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.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas H. Huxley
The only atheism is the denial of truth.
Arthur Lynch
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.
Hubert Humphrey
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil Gibran
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.
Jean Valjean
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
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
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence