Truth Quotes

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Anthony de Mello

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Mille

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself 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

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

Greek Prove

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

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Stephen Wolfram

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

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

Harry S Truman

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 04, 2004

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry George

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Hosea Ballou

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Author Unknown

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann von Goethe

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Edward Hubbell Chaplin

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce