Truth Quotes

George gordon byron - adversity is the first path to truth....
E. howard hunt - no one is entitled to the truth....
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Charles a. dana - fight for your opinions, but do not believe that...
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
The "Xlib Programming Manual".
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
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
A half - Truth is a whole lie.
Yiddish Prove
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen, Emma
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Aga
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish Prove
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
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
Author Unknown
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
John Locke
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
American Prove
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
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Sovereign
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - Your abilities and your failings.
Grard Depardieu