Truth Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - the peril of every fine faculty is the delight of...
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplie
Samuel butle - for truth is precious and divine too rich a pearl...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.
Stanley Baldwin
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.
Clive
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen, Emma
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Sanders Pierce
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
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
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Azel Backus
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
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
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Jean Iris Murdoch
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Luther Standing Bea
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Aldous Huxley
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche