Truth Quotes

Truth is a pathless land.

Krishnamurti

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Ausonius

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)

By doubting we come at truth.

Cicero

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

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

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

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

Truth is shorter than fiction.

Irving Cohen

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Cicero

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

Blaise Pascal

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Jones

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Jeremy Collie

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Walter Cronkite

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Coley

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann von Goethe

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