Truth Quotes

Bible, john 8: 32 - ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make...
I ching - no plain not followed by a slope. no going not...
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
Lord byron - opinions are made to be changed - or how is the...
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Pythagorus
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
H. M. Tomlinson
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Maxwell Planck
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
George S. Arundale
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexande
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fulle
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles, Creusa
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish Prove
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Prove
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Thomas Jefferson
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill