Truth Quotes

Jewish prove - truth is the safest lie....
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
Benjamin disraeli - man is a being born to believe. and if no church...
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
Richard D. Rosen
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran
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
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
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost, The Black Cottage
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Unknown
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
Samuel Butle
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
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
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collie
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplie
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
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.
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung