Truth Quotes

Giovanni jacopo casanova - i have always loved truth so passionately that i...
Clive - only reason can convince us of those three...
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Winston spencer churchill - the truth is so precious that she must be...
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
Pope John Paul II
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
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
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself 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
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
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
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Charles Richte
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
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S Truman
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.
Unknown
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.
G. Campbell
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Maxwell Planck