Truth Quotes

Abraham lincoln - i believe it is an established maxim in morals...
Aesop - a liar will not be believed, even when he speaks...
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Plato, Symposium
Eddie canto - truth or tact you have to choose. most times they...
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Aldous Huxley
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
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
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana
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)
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
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
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!
Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - - That the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
American Prove
Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
I am the only truth I know.
Jean Rhys
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton