Truth Quotes

I am the only truth I know.

Jean Rhys

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, -

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063

It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Hazlitt

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

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

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

William Butler Yeats

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butle

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

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".

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

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

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas H. Huxley