Truth Quotes

Thomas paine - such is the irresistible nature of truth that all...
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Thomas Jefferson
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
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Michel eyquem de montaigne - we are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a...
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin, http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Seneca - truth never perishes veritas numquam perit....
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
Sir John A. MacDonald
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas Sowell
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ashley Montagu
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino
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
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke