Truth Quotes

William hazlitt - the contemplation of truth and beauty is the...
Arthur lynch - the only atheism is the denial of truth....
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
Publilius syrus - in a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of...
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Mille
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoove
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Lenin
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
Max Born
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
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Prove
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
William James
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
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, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.
Claude T Bissell
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Henry David Thoreau
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K Jerome
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andr Maurois
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
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