Truth Quotes

Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
Samuel johnson - in order that all men may be taught to speak...
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Sir arthur conan doyle, (sherlock holmes) sign of fou - how often have i said to you that when you have...
Love truth but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
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.
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Boris Pasternak
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
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton, History of Science
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
Laertius Diogenes
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
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
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
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Alde
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Henry David Thoreau
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
Claude T Bissell