Truth Quotes

Pablo picasso - art is a lie that tells the truth....
Lenin - a lie told often enough becomes truth....
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Janos arnay - it is one of the maladies of our age to profess a...
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.
Henri Frdric Amiel
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish prove
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
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
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Truth is subject to too much analysis.
Frank Herbert, Dune
It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Plato, Symposium
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Rmy de Gourmont
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
George S. Arundale