Truth Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - if you can not find the truth right where you...
Voltaire - love truth, and pardon error....
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
Sir John A. MacDonald
W. clement stone - truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of...
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Lenin
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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
I am the only truth I know.
Jean Rhys
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
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
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
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
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
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)
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
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)
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
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Jesus
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K Jerome
There is no religion higher than the truth.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Prove
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State