Truth Quotes

Charles caleb colton - it is not so difficult a task to plant new...
Gilbert keith chesterton - a good novel tells you the truth about its hero...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Thomas merton - the truth that many people never understand,...
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Jeseph Joubert
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
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
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan Simpson
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.. an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony de Mello
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sylvia Ashton - Warne
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
Elizabeth Jenkins
Love truth, but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
By doubting we come at truth.
Cicero
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Truth is a pathless land.
Krishnamurti
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) The Sign of Four, 1890
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.
Henry Mille
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.
Thomas Jefferson
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
Samuel Butle
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.
George Meredith
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
Mark Twain
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Lady Nancy Asto
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butle
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
Truth fears no questions.
Anonymous
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
C. C. Colton
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine - To - Five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Francis Bacon