Truth Quotes
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
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
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.Madame Chiang
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.James Agee
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.Sigmund Freud
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
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.Harry S Truman
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.Aristotle
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.Stanley Baldwin
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - Your abilities and your failings.Grard Depardieu
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.John Keats, -
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Conan Doyle
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.Dogen
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.Plato
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.Unknown
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.Miguel de Cervantes
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.Rmy de Gourmont
