Truth Quotes

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Albert Einstein

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 425 Bible

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Kahlil Gibran

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Jean Iris Murdoch

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law

Dick Clark

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

Stephen Wolfram

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

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

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

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

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

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)

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

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexande