Truth Quotes

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Jose raul bernardo, silent wing (simon & schuster, 1998) - when honor and truth are at odds, let truth...
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Hans reichenbach - if error is corrected whenever it is recognized...
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles A. Dana
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Jesus
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Luther Standing Bea
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
Unknown
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Stanislaw J. Lec
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
No one is entitled to the truth.
E. Howard Hunt
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
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
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Scarface
The pursuit of truth shall set you free - Even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Alde
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beeche
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Boh
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel Cerbantes
It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
Arab Prove
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?
Dick Clark
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles