Truth Quotes

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Stephen Wolfram

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

George W. Bush, http: //www. whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524 - 3. html

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Scarface

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Conan Doyle

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Henrik David Boh

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Arab Prove

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

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

Delores Seats

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. Rowling

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

H. L. Mencken

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

Miguel Cerbantes

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Goldie Hawn

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

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

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Henry Ward Beeche