Truth Quotes
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
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.Denis Diderot
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.George Eliot
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.Laertius Diogenes
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
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
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
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
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Martin Luthe
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 Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
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
Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.Delores Seats
I am the only truth I know.Jean Rhys
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
There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.Alfred North Whitehead
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.Edward Abbey
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.American Prove
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.Hosea Ballou
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.Chief Joseph
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
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
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.Aristotle
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.Richard Whately
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 easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.A. A. Hodge
No one is entitled to the truth.E. Howard Hunt
