Truth Quotes

Coley - science is but the statement of truth found out....
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.
Hubert Humphrey
Bernard m. baruch - approach each new problem not with a view of...
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Aldous Huxley
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
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
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop
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
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.
Henry Mille
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
Samuel Butle
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Love truth, but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Jeseph Joubert
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Conan Doyle
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers