Truth Quotes

Henry c. blinn - mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and...
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
President harry truman, public papers of the president of the united states: harry s. truman - 1951 u. s. gov. 1966 p1063 - democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual...
Mark twain - often, the surest way to convey misinformation is...
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Plato, Symposium
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
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
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
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
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
A. A. Hodge
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle
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
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas H. Huxley
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoove
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".
No one is entitled to the truth.
E. Howard Hunt
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 425 Bible
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge