Truth Quotes

Vernon howard - every day that you attempt to see things as they...
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
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Clive staples lewis - even in literature and art, no man who bothers...
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.
Alfred Adle
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Prove
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
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
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
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
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
Truth is a pathless land.
Krishnamurti
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Henry David Thoreau
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
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
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.
Hubert Humphrey
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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