Truth Quotes

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
Claude T Bissell
Gilbert keith chesterton - you can only find truth with logic if you have...
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.
Calvin S. Hall
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish Prove
Quintus septimius tertullianus, adversus valentinianos - truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach...
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
The truth is always a compound of two half - Truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
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
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
Laertius Diogenes
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
Alexander Hamilton
Clarence day - as time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth...
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
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collie
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
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
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Henrik David Boh
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoove
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch