Truth Quotes

William blake - when i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of...
Lyndon b. johnson - democracy is a constant tension between truth and...
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
Henry david thoreau - it takes two to speak the truth - - one to speak...
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas H. Huxley
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
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
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 F. Kennedy
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
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
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
American Prove
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".
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
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.
Stanley Baldwin
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
Truth is the mother of hatred.
Ausonius
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
Elizabeth Jenkins
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
Laertius Diogenes
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
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
George Lucas
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Unknown
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexande