Truth Quotes

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore

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

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

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

William Butler Yeats

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Charles Richte

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

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

John Keats, -

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

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

Turkish prove

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry S Truman

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible

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

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Rmy de Gourmont