Truth Quotes

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
Ephesians 425 bible - wherefore putting away lying, speak every man...
Thomas carlyle - nothing that was worthy in the past departs no...
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - And on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - And we will neglect it at our peril.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 p1063
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
Edward r. murrow - to be persuasive, we must be believable; to be...
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Daisy Bates
The truth is easiest to disprove - Its defenses are down.
Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Mille
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
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 04, 2004
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
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
Unknown
Truth is subject to too much analysis.
Frank Herbert, Dune
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
O. G. Sutton
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Conan Doyle
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Spencer Churchill
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
Patrick Henry
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
Unknown
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi