Truth Quotes

Mary catherine bateson - the truth that survives is simply the lie that is...
Aristotle, nichomachean ethics - piety requires us to honor truth above our...
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Macduff - prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs,...
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Robert Armstrong
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Hosea Ballou
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
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
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Mark Twain
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.
Hubert Humphrey
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K Jerome
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
Johann von Goethe
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962