Truth Quotes

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Arthur Lynch

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

American Prove

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

Samuel Butle

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplie

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Jones

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Pope John Paul II

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Alan Marshall Beck

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Warren Bennis

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Margaret Fulle

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

Sir John A. MacDonald

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Jean Iris Murdoch

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Samuel Johnson

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy