Truth Quotes

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Michael Bakunin, God and State

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

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth.

Stanley Baldwin

What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Warren Bennis

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

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.

Bill Chickering

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplie

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Aga

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elde

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Ausonius

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

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

This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Arab Prove

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Pierre Abelard

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie