Truth Quotes

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Luther Standing Bea
President harry truman, public papers of the president of the united states: harry s. truman - 1951 u. s. gov. 1966 p1063 - democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual...
Alexander solzhenitsyn, peace and violence, sct. 2, in index, no. 4 (london, 1973. - it is not because the truth is too difficult to...
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
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James
Clive staples lewis - even in literature and art, no man who bothers...
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
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Jeseph Joubert
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
Truth is a pathless land.
Krishnamurti
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
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
Robert Frost
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
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 truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
D. A. Battista
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
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
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche