Truth Quotes
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.Clive Staples Lewis
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
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
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.Charles Dickens, Bleak House
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.Patrick Henry
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
The first casualty when war comes is truth.Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.J. Edgar Hoove
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.William James
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.Sir Thomas More
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Fou
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.Moliere
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.Winston Spencer Churchill
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
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
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Boh
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
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.Shana Alexande
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.Albert Einstein
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.Oliver L. North
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Truth is not determined by majority vote.Doug Gwyn
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
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.Henry Mille
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?Henry Mille
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.Lyndon B. Johnson
