Truth Quotes

Alexander jablokov
Galileo galilei - all truths are easy to understand once they are...
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
Henri frdric amiel - truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be...
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.
Jean Valjean
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.
Joyce
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
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
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas Sowell
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Albert Schweitze
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Jim
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
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Fou
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.
Sara Teasdale
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)
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley - Bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.
Delores Seats
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot