Truth Quotes
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.Johann Kaspar Lavate
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.Og Mandino
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.Alfred Adle
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.Samuel Butle
The truth is more important than the facts.Frank Lloyd Wright
Adversity is the first path to truth.George Gordon Byron
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.Unknown
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.Rmy de Gourmont
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.Edward Albee
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.Sydney Harris
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.Han Suyin
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.William Shakespeare
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.Henry David Thoreau
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 first casualty when war comes is truth.Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.Benjamin Disraeli
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.Henrik Ibsen
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.Johann von Goethe
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.Publilius Syrus
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.Slovenian Prove
