Truth Quotes

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver L. North
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - and we should consider every day lost on which we...
Claude t bissell - yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but...
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
Stanley baldwin - it is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm...
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
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
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Henry David Thoreau
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
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
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
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
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
Bill Chickering
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
There is no religion higher than the truth.
H Hahn Blavatsky
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.
Sara Teasdale