Truth Quotes

A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Arthur schopenhaue - all truth passes through 3 stages. first, it is...
George eliot - falsehood is easy, truth so difficult....
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith
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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Henry david thoreau - it takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and...
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.
Unknown
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
There is no religion higher than the truth.
H Hahn Blavatsky
When you tell the truth, people listen.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Henrik David Boh
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
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
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Albert Schweitze
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
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
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.
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
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beeche
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield