Truth Quotes

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin

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

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

Adversity is the first path to truth.

George Gordon Byron

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Sir Thomas More

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Henry C. Blinn

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luthe

There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Michael Bakunin, God and State

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

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 than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Ashley Montagu

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible, John 8: 32

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

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

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Lenin

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield