Truth Quotes

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

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 that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

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

Chinese Prove

Truth is the safest lie.

Jewish Prove

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 is shorter than fiction.

Irving Cohen

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

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

Immanuel Kant

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

A half - Truth is a whole lie.

Yiddish Prove

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, (attributed)

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Albert Schweitze

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Denis Diderot

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Johann von Goethe

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mary Catherine Bateson