Truth Quotes

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

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Buddha, The Dhammapada

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

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

Henrik Ibsen

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Pearl Buck

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

No one is entitled to the truth.

E. Howard Hunt

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

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

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

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

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

Margaret Fulle

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.

O. G. Sutton

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

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Robert Frost

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Daisy Bates

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Walter Cronkite

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Aristotle

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit