Truth Quotes

Robert louis stevenson - for no man lives in the external truth among...
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
Jerome k jerome - it is always the best policy to tell the truth,...
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish Prove
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
George Lucas
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Azel Backus
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ashley Montagu
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - Your abilities and your failings.
Grard Depardieu
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Prove
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
Johann von Goethe
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
By doubting we come at truth.
Cicero
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
There are no whole truths; all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Dr. Karl Menninge
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8: 32
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Henrik David Boh
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby