Truth Quotes
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
Time discovers truth.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.Charles Sanders Pierce
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.Alfred Alde
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.Plato, Symposium
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.Lenin
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.Josh Billings
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.Elizabeth Goudge
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
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.Jefferson Davis
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
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.Dr. Karl Menninge
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Jim
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.Henry George
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.John Locke
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.Laertius Diogenes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.Cicero
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
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.Stanley Baldwin
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 04, 2004
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
By doubting we come at truth.Cicero
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.Samuel Butle
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.Edward Albee
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.Lyndon B. Johnson
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows".
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
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.Daisy Bates
