Truth Quotes

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Arthur Lynch

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Henrik David Boh

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

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

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

Samuel Butle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beeche

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Madam Guizot

Justice is the truth in action.

Jeseph Joubert

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

Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton