Truth Quotes

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Adversity is the first path to truth.

George Gordon Byron

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells, 1903

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.

Seneca

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

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

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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

He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

American Prove

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

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran