Truth Quotes

Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Samuel butle - truth is generally kindness, but where the two...
Arthur schopenhaue - all truth passes through 3 stages. first, it is...
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
Jean rhys - i am the only truth i know....
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
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
Claude T Bissell
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
Richard D. Rosen
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Plato, Symposium
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran
There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.
Unknown
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone