Truth Quotes

Edward bulwer - lytton - one of the sublimest things in the world is plain...
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith
Maya angelou - for africa to me is more than a glamorous fact....
Unknown - beware of the half truth. you may have gotten...
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Plato, Symposium
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
Sir John A. MacDonald
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
Henri Frdric Amiel
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
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 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
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
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
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Alan Marshall Beck
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.
Unknown
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
C. C. Colton
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant