Truth Quotes

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Coley

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

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

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Arthur Lynch

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

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Alan Marshall Beck

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

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

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Denise Levertov

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

Lillian Hellman

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Jones

In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Love truth but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Richard D. Rosen

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Prove

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half - Truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970