Truth Quotes

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
Sydney smith - errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of...
Simone de beauvoi - i tore myself away from the safe comfort of...
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
Arab Prove
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton, History of Science
In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
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
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Mille
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Rmy de Gourmont
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
Patrick Henry