Truth Quotes
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.Carl Jung
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.Sophocles, Creusa
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.Sir Winston Churchill
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
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
Truth fears no questions.Anonymous
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.Chief Joseph
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
Truth is the daughter of time.Aulus Gellius
It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.Arab Prove
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.Henry David Thoreau
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.Alfred Alde
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.Jane Austen, Emma
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.Han Suyin
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
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
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.Margaret Fulle
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.Percy B. Shelley
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.Scarface
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.Thomas Paine
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.Eric Hoffe
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Kahlil Gibran
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.Buddha, The Dhammapada
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.Henry Mille
