Truth Quotes

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

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Unknown

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

Oscar Wilde

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Samuel Butle

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Hosea Ballou

In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.

Sovereign

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Michael Pupin

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Mohandas Ghandi

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

G. Campbell

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

George Meredith

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

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

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)