Truth Quotes

Friedrich nietzsche - who is better, they who promote truth over...
Sir walter besant - tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the...
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken
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
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Moliere - doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths....
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas H. Huxley
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoove
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Alde
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
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
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Scarface
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Lenin
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
American Prove
When you tell the truth, people listen.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
Henry C. Blinn
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970