Truth Quotes

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

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

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

Galileo Galilei

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 425 Bible

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

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

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

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

Cicero

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Laertius Diogenes

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Truth is subject to too much analysis.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron

This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Maitri Upanishads

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

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.

Eric Hoffe

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Margaret Fulle

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplie

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Augustus Hare