Truth Quotes

Kahlil gibran - yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks...
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Elbert hubbard - live truth instead of professing it....
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
Jameson Green
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Jean Iris Murdoch
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.
George Gordon Byron
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 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
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mohandas Ghandi
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 Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
Great is truth, and all powerful.
Vulgate
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Joe Moore
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
Travis Walton
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
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
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexande
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy