Truth Quotes

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Adlai e. stevenson jr. - let us talk sense to the american people. let us...
Augustus hare - the greatest truths are the simplest....
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Moses ben maimon maimonides - you must accept the truth from whatever source it...
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
James Agee
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
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
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver L. North
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
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
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
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
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
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
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Prove
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.
John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8: 32
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
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
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
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
What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
Warren Bennis