Truth Quotes

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
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - there are no eternal facts, as there are no...
Galileo galilei - all truths are easy to understand once they are...
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S Truman
George orwell - political language... is designed to make lies...
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Azel Backus
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish Prove
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain
No one is entitled to the truth.
E. Howard Hunt
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Love truth, but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
George S. Arundale
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.
Seneca
Truth is shorter than fiction.
Irving Cohen
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain