Truth Quotes

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
Aristotle - philosophy is the science which considers truth....
Oscar wilde - man is least himself when he talks in his own...
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American prove - he who speaks the truth must have one foot in the...
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran
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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George Sarton, History of Science
By doubting we come at truth.
Cicero
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
James Russell Lowell
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
Muhammad Ali
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Nozick
Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
Sir William Drape
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
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
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
A half - Truth is a whole lie.
Yiddish Prove
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.
Elizabeth Jenkins
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.
Pearl Buck
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this - - I either choose the truth or I am deceit.
Sovereign
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
Here? s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butle
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collie
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau