Truth Quotes

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Isaac newton - i was like a boy playing on the sea - shore, and...
The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
George S. Arundale
Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Hosea Ballou
Woodrow wilson, _congressional government_, p. 109 - no one who has read official documents needs to...
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butle
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
Federico Fellini, 8 1/2
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Jeseph Joubert
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Prove
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mohandas Ghandi
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 425 Bible
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
It takes two to speak the truth - - One to speak and the other to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Dogen
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil Gibran
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
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
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.
Kermit Eby
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H. G. Wells, 1903
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde