Truth Quotes

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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

Samuel Johnson

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.

Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Robert Frost

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 425 Bible

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Charles Sanders Pierce

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Claude T Bissell

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Dogen

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Laertius Diogenes

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

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

Madam Guizot

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

Love truth but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

Michael Pupin

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Jesus

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