Truth Quotes

I am the only truth I know.

Jean Rhys

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Aldous Huxley

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

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)

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Aristotle

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

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 of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.

Clarence Darrow

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Buddha, The Dhammapada

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

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

George Lucas

For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard