Truth Quotes

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.

Unknown

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 is a pathless land.

Krishnamurti

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Denise Levertov

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.

Elizabeth Jenkins

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Stephen Wolfram

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

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 great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

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

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

Michael Pupin

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

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Albert Coombs Barnes