Truth Quotes

Socrates, quoted in: plato, phaedrus, sct. 262. - whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form...
Whitney young - the truth is that there is nothing noble in being...
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
George lucas - many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on...
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish prove
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel Cerbantes
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw J. Lec
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Sign of Fou
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
O. G. Sutton
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
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
Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.
Laertius Diogenes
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
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beeche
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
Max Born
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley