Truth Quotes

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Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Mark Twain
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas H. Huxley
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel Cerbantes
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The Dhammapada
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Mark Twain
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish prove
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Love truth but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Rmy de Gourmont
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
Sir William Drape
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
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
Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNa