Truth Quotes

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

I am the only truth I know.

Jean Rhys

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law

Dick Clark

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

G. Campbell

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

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

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

Buddha, The Dhammapada

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Denise Levertov

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

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

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

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, (attributed)

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

Albert Einstein

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

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 you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth fears no questions.

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