Truth Quotes

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.

Delores Seats

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Janos Arnay

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

William James

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Dick Clark

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

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

Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Henrik Ibsen

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

David Hume

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Nozick

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

John Locke

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

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

Mark Twain

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Daisy Bates

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide