Truth Quotes
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.Sovereign
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
When you tell the truth, people listen.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.Charles Caleb Colton
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.Lady Nancy Asto
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.David Hume
Truth is the mother of hatred.Ausonius
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.Dogen
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.Denis Diderot
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
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
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.H. L. Mencken
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.Anthony de Mello
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.Richard Whately
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.Charles Sanders Pierce
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.George Meredith
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.Jack Kerouac
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.Jane Austen, Emma
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Dwight D Eisenhowe
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.Yiddish Prove
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A half - Truth is a whole lie.Yiddish Prove
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
