Truth Quotes

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

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Hosea Ballou

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Oliver L. North

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

Vaclav Havel

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

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

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

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

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

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Cicero

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Han Suyin

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitze

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

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

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andr Maurois

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

I am the only truth I know.

Jean Rhys