Truth Quotes

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
Patrick henry - it is natural for a man to indulge in the...
Albert einstein - the ideals which have lighted my way, and time...
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Henry david thoreau, simplify simplify - say what you have to say, not what you ought. any...
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
truth never perishes Veritas numquam perit.
Seneca
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
H. M. Tomlinson
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
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
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.
Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
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 truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.
Alfred Adle
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung