Truth Quotes

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

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

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

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

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make - Believe!

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mother Jones

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Kahlil Gibran

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Ausonius

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

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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

Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956

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

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Sir Walter Besant

There is no religion higher than the truth.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque

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 truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Ashley Montagu

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Laertius Diogenes

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

George W. Bush, http: //www. whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524 - 3. html

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.

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