Truth Quotes

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Charles peguy - he who does not bellow the truth when he knows...
Arthur c. clarke, first on the moon, 1970 - it may be that the old astrologers had the truth...
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
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
Sigmund freud - from error to error one discovers the entire...
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is subject to too much analysis.
Frank Herbert, Dune
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.
Cuban Prove
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
Elizabeth Jenkins
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.
Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
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
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.
Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luthe
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
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
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore Harold White