Truth Quotes

William shakespeare,
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terry pratchett, small gods - no. men should die for lies. but the truth is too...
Denis diderot - we swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but...
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Michael Bakunin, God and State
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G. K. Chesterton
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beeche
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Jesus
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
Lillian Hellman
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
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".
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
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
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
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) The Sign of Four, 1890
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
James Agee
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
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Immanuel Kant
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
Elizabeth Jenkins
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
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