Truth Quotes

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

George Meredith

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

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

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles