Truth Quotes

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

Lillian Hellman

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Albert Schweitze

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love truth but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Walter Cronkite

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

Immanuel Kant

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)

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

Joe Moore

The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

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

Albert Einstein

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

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

Niels Boh

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.

Sara Teasdale

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.

Stanley Baldwin

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

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

William O. Douglas

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Claude T Bissell