Truth Quotes

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

George W. Bush, http: //www. whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524 - 3. html

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

John Keats

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Goldie Hawn

No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.

I Ching

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

When you tell the truth, people listen.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

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.

There is no religion higher than the truth.

H Hahn Blavatsky

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

Alfred Adle

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Nozick

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas H. Huxley

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.

Hubert Humphrey

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells, 1903

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplie

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Albert Camus

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

D. A. Battista

Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron