Truth Quotes

Jean iris murdoch - a good man often appears gauche simply because he...
William butler yeats - we taste and feel and see the truth. we do not...
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
Simone de beauvoi - i tore myself away from the safe comfort of...
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
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
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
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
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain, (attributed)
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
David Hume
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
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
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
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.
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Michael Pupin
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
It is always the best policy to speak the truth - - Unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.
Andr Gide
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
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Azel Backus
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
There are no whole truths; all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.
Unknown
In the spider - web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles, Creusa
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
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein