Truth Quotes
The only atheism is the denial of truth.Arthur Lynch
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.Aldous Huxley
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.Edward Hubbell Chaplin
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.Slovenian Prove
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.Thomas Sowell
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.Unknown
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.Clarence Day
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.Jane Austen, Emma
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
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.G. K. Chesterton
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.George W. Bush, http: //www. whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524 - 3. html
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.Denis Diderot
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.Han Suyin
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.Giordano Bruno
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.Charles Gordon
truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.Seneca
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.Henry George
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.D. A. Battista
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.James Russell Lowell
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
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
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
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.Albert Einstein
