Truth Quotes

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Mark Twain

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

Spanish Prove

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Cuban Prove

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Pope John Paul II

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Unknown

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not.

Eric Hoffe

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.

Sir William Drape

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law

Dick Clark

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

John Christian Bovee

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Hazlitt

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andr Maurois

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Charles Sanders Pierce

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

George Meredith

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

Thomas Paine

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Ausonius

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