Truth Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - the truth, the hope of any time, must always be...
Benjamin disraeli - time is precious, but truth is more precious than...
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
Sir thomas more - romantic love is an illusion. most of us discover...
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butle
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
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
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore Harold White
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.
Unknown
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
O. G. Sutton
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Jesus
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
A half - Truth is a whole lie.
Yiddish Prove
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph