Truth Quotes

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
Denis diderot - what has not been examined impartially has not...
Henry david thoreau - all perception of truth is the detection of an...
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
Elizabeth cady stanton - truth is the only safe ground to stand on....
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.
Eric Hoffe
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
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
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
Richard D. Rosen
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
George W. Bush, http: //www. whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524 - 3. html
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
By doubting we come at truth.
Cicero
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
The "Xlib Programming Manual".
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Prove
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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