Truth Quotes

Og mandino - i will persist until i succeed. always will i...
Frederick the great - the greatest and noblest pleasure which men can...
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha, The Dhammapada
Conan doyle - it is an old maxim of mine that when you have...
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".
The greatest truths are the simplest.
Augustus Hare
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
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
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Janos Arnay
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke
In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
William James
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Samuel Johnson
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Voltaire
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver L. North
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen, Emma
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Sovereign
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butle
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
George Lucas
I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.
Stephen Wolfram
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.