Truth Quotes
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 has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.Albert Schweitze
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.Andr Gide
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.Anthony de Mello
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.American Prove
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.W. Somerset Maugham
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.Cicero
Truth is not determined by majority vote.Doug Gwyn
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.Richard Whately
Love truth, and pardon error.Voltaire
Love truth, but pardon error.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.Sir Winston Churchill
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.Edward R. Murrow
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.Lillian Hellman
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Martin Luthe
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
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.Charles Caleb Colton
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.Alfred Alde
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.Plato
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.Marie Curie
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.Cuban Prove
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
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
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
Time discovers truth.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.Unknown
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
