Truth Quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.O. G. Sutton
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.Albert Einstein
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.William James
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain, (attributed)
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.Aesop
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
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.I Ching
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Herbert Aga
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.Charles Peguy
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.Theodore Harold White
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
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.Rebecca West
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.Henry David Thoreau
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.Author Unknown
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.Edward Hubbell Chaplin
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - LawDick Clark
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.Kahlil Gibran
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.William O. Douglas
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.Daisy Bates
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.Richard Buckminster Fulle
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
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.Vaclav Havel
