Truth Quotes

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

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

Jack Kerouac

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

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

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.

Sir William Drape

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Francis Bacon

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself 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

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Francis Bacon

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Arthur Lynch

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

George Lucas

It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.

Patrick Henry

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law

Dick Clark

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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 Fitzgerald Kennedy

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Kahlil Gibran

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau