Truth Quotes

Bette davis, the lonely life, 1962 - there are new words now that excuse everybody....
Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.
Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal".
Delores seats - inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise...
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
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
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
George S. Arundale
A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.
Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
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
Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Prove
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.
The "Xlib Programming Manual".
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
Richard D. Rosen
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Luther Standing Bea
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Alde
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Unknown
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parke
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
Samuel Butle
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
Plato, Symposium
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
Spanish Prove
Truth is shorter than fiction.
Irving Cohen
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
No one is entitled to the truth.
E. Howard Hunt
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 12: 19, The King James Bible
Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Canto
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Clive Staples Lewis
Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mother Jones
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon