Truth Quotes
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.William Penn
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Max Planck
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.H. L. Mencken
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Love truth, but pardon error.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.Jean Valjean
The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.Vaclav Havel
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.Blaise Pascal
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.Denis Diderot
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
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.Benjamin Disraeli
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.Robert Louis Stevenson
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.American Prove
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.George Lucas
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.
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.Sir William Drape
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.Cicero
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Sherlock Holmes
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.Henry George
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
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.Edward R. Murrow
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.Kahlil Gibran
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
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
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.I Ching
