Truth Quotes

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

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Margaret Fulle

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry George

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Oliver L. North

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

Adversity is the first path to truth.

George Gordon Byron

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

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

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

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

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

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Unknown

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.

Sara Teasdale

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

In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.

Sovereign