Truth Quotes

Oscar wilde - truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the...
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.
Cuban Prove
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Lillian hellman - cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the...
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
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
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Prove
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Thomas paine - such is the irresistible nature of truth that all...
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
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
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 first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
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
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
The greatest truths are the simplest.
Augustus Hare
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collie
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
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
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies