Truth Quotes

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

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

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Han Suyin

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

Charles Gordon

In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

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

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

Albert Einstein

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Vernon Howard

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

Madam Guizot

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, -

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Denise Levertov

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

Albert Einstein

Justice is the truth in action.

Jeseph Joubert

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein