Truth Quotes

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.

Eric Hoffe

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

Josh Billings

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

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

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

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Nozick

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Moliere

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Prove

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Arab Prove

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

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

Margaret Fulle

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Sir John A. MacDonald