Truth Quotes

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen, Emma

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn

It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.

Patrick Henry

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Josh Billings

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

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

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

George Meredith

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.

Turkish Prove

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Jameson Green

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

William James

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

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

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Johann von Goethe

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

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

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

Abraham Lincoln