Truth Quotes

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

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

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

G. Campbell

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

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

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

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

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

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Goldie Hawn

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Federico Fellini, 8 1/2

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Henri Frdric Amiel

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Unknown

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino