Truth Quotes

Sydney smith - errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of...
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
President harry truman, public papers of the president of the united states: harry s. truman - 1951 u. s. gov. 1966 p1063 - democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual...
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Lenin
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8: 32
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Maitri Upanishads
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chaplin
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
Georges Braque
Justice is the truth in action.
Jeseph Joubert
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.
Henri Frdric Amiel
The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
Vaclav Havel
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.
Eric Hoffe
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fulle
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore Harold White
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
When you tell the truth, people listen.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.
John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)