Truth Quotes

Oliver wendell holmes jr., (dissent, abrams v. united states, 1919) - the ultimate good desired is better reached by...
W. clement stone - truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of...
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.
Stanley Baldwin
Blaise pascal - one must know oneself, if this does not serve to...
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Prove
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.
Stephen Wolfram
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
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.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.
Cuban Prove
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Janos Arnay
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
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)
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.
John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Henry David Thoreau
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8: 32
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
The "Xlib Programming Manual".