Truth Quotes
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
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.Henry David Thoreau
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.Unknown
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.Matthew Arnold
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.William Penn
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.Unknown
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.Dogen
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.Marie Curie
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Jim
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 than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.Andr Gide
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.Albert Schweitze
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.Henry David Thoreau
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.Rmy de Gourmont
Truth is the safest lie.Jewish Prove
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.Dwight D Eisenhowe
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.Henri Frdric Amiel
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.Samuel Butle
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
Great is truth, and all powerful.Vulgate
