Truth Quotes

Oscar wilde - truth, in matters of religion, is simply the...
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton, History of Science
Arab prove - it is good to know the truth, but it is better to...
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Daisy Bates
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
Richard D. Rosen
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
James Agee
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexande
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Scarface
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
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles, Creusa
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
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
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
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
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butle
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
Lillian Hellman
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
Laertius Diogenes
The truth is always a compound of two half - Truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard