Truth Quotes

G. k. chesterton - a good novel tells us the truth about its hero;...
Dogen - when we discover that the truth is already in us,...
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
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
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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
V? lcav havel, parade, times picayune - courage means going against majority opinion in...
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
George Lucas
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
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 least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Albert Schweitze
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Truth is a pathless land.
Krishnamurti
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 425 Bible
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn