Truth Quotes

Edward albee - good writers define reality bad ones merely...
When you tell the truth, people listen.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Kermit eby - i am for integrity, if only because life is very...
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
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
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Hosea Ballou
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
Love truth, but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S Truman
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
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".
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
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.
Eric Hoffe
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
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
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Sovereign
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles, Creusa
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa
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
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.
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