Truth Quotes

Cato the elde - anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive...
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Dogen - when we discover that the truth is already in us,...
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw J. Lec
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Jim
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
The truth is always a compound of two half - Truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
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
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen