Truth Quotes

Denis diderot - we swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but...
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Conan Doyle
Harry s truman, quoted by time, june 9, 1975 - i never did give anybody hell. i just told the...
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
James Agee
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
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Mille
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Prove
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.
Jean Valjean
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
Warren Bennis