Truth Quotes
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.Buddha, The Dhammapada
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.Francis Bacon
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
Truth never damages a cause that is just.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.A. A. Hodge
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.Albert Schweitze
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.Thomas H. Huxley
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.W. Somerset Maugham
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.Stanislaw J. Lec
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.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
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.Virginia Woolf
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.George Bernard Shaw
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.Madam Guizot
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?Friedrich Nietzsche
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
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.Aldous Huxley
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
There is no religion higher than the truth.H Hahn Blavatsky
