Truth Quotes

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

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.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Pope John Paul II

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

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

Kahlil Gibran

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.

Turkish Prove

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

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Denis Diderot

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Jones

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

Hans Reichenbach

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".

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)

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Pearl Buck

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Canto

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great