Truth Quotes
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.Miguel de Cervantes
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Anything more than the truth would be too much.Robert Frost
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
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - - Anonymously and posthumously.Thomas Sowell
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.Anne Rice
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.Aristotle
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.Stephen Wolfram
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
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.Mark Twain
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.Luther Standing Bea
Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.Jameson Green
It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.Robert Armstrong
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Martin Luthe
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.Frank Herbert
There are no whole truths all truths are half - Truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.Alfred North Whitehead
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.Aristotle
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.Conan Doyle
Truth is not determined by majority vote.Doug Gwyn
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.Frederick The Great
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.Demosthenes
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.Sir John A. MacDonald
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.George Meredith
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.Goldie Hawn
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.I Ching
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.H. M. Tomlinson
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.Kahlil Gibran
