Truth Quotes
If you tell the truth, you don't have
to remember anything....Mark Twain.
A thing is not necessarily true
because badly uttered, nor false
because spoken magnificently....St. Augustine.
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare
moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly
higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken
over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt.
Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit
ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self....Dr. Marcus Bach.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so,
you apologize for the truth....Benjamin Disraeli.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not
to take part in the lie. One word of truth
outweighs the world....Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
What is true belongs to me!....Seneca.
Truth is always the strongest argument....Sophocles.
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth....Goldie Hawn.
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an
injustice. But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken,
is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn
a hole through the hardest heart....Bill Chickering.
We should consider every day lost one 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 Nietzsche.
A kiss may not be the truth,
but it is what we wish were true....Steve Martin.
If you want to hear the truth, listen to the heart,
because it doesn't know how to lie....Gingerale.
Rather than love, than money, than fame,
give me truth....Henry David Thoreau.
The truth of the matter is that you always
know the right thing to do. The hard part is
doing it....General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
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.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory
of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It
is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no
victories without it....Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton.
The ideas that have lighted my way have been
kindness, beauty and truth....Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
Truth is a torch that shines through the fog
without dispelling it....Claude A. Helvétius.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,
the more joy you can contain. The cup that holds
your wine is the very cup that was burned in the
potter's oven. When you are joyous, look deep into
your heart and you shall find it is only that which
has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.
There is no greatness where
there is no simplicity,
goodness and truth....Leo Tolstoy.
Truth often suffers more by the heat
of its defenders than from the
arguments of its opposers....William Penn.
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now -- always....Albert Schweitzer.
When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of
convincing those who do not know it, but for
the sake of defending those who do....William Blake.
One universe made up all that is; and one God
in it all, and one principle of being, and
one law, the reason shared by all thinking
creatures, and one truth....Marcus Aurelius.
Truth is always served by great minds,
even if they fight it....Jean Rostand.
It is man that makes truth great,
not truth that makes man great....Confucius.
Those who know the truth are not equal
to those who love it....Confucius.
All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps
back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency,
is either a coward or a criminal....James Russell Lowell.
People deserve...the truth. They deserve honesty.
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it
momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide
you something to face the world with....Bruce Springsteen.
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the
application of it to affairs....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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....The Declaration of Independence.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth
than a lie. I believe it is better to be free
than to be a slave. And I believe it is better
to know than to be ignorant....H. L. Mencken.
We spend all our time looking
for some concept of Truth, but
Truth is what is left when we
drop all concepts....David Merzel.
For truth is precious and divine,
too rich a pearl for carnal swine....Samuel Butler.
You can only find truth with logic if you have
already found truth without it....Gilbert K. Chesterton.
The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper
regard for it and its faithful observance,
constitutes true education....Joseph F. Smith.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may
attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in
the end, there it is....Winston Churchill.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth
as a whole lie....Austin O'Malley.
I will tell you the truth as soon as
I figure it out....Wayne Birmingham.
You never find yourself until you
face the truth....Pearl Bailey.
The greatest truths are the simplest,
and so are the greatest men....J. C. Hare.
The truth simply is that's all.
It doesn't need reasons:
it doesn't have to be right:
it's just the truth.
Period....Frederick Frieseke.
Truth is the greatest gift of life and love
is the exercise of that truth....Unknown.
Truth is not a matter of
personal viewpoint....Vernon Howard.
Falsehood is cowardice,
the truth courage....Hosea Ballou.
A man that seeks truth and loves
it must be reckoned precious to
any human society....Epictetus.
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as
it was thought. Committed to writing in
such cases, it is not even a bad photograph.
Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one
stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by
uproar, music or cries for help....Walter Benjamin.
The truth shall set you free....Bible.
Respect for the truth comes close to being
the basis for all morality....Frank Herbert.
As scarce as truth is, the supply
has always been in excess of
the demand....Josh Billings.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be
true. I am not bound to succeed but I am
bound to live the best life that I have. I must
stand with anybody that stands right and part
from him when he goes wrong....Abraham Lincoln.
When you want to fool the world,
tell the truth....Otto Von Bismarck.
Every truth passes through three stages before
it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed,
in the second it is opposed, in the third it
is regarded as self evident....Arthur Schopenhauer.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him
forget greatness and ask for truth,
and he will find both....Horace Mann.
Truth can never be told so as to be
understood, and not be believed....William Blake.
Whatever separates you from the Truth,
throw it away, it will vanish anyhow....Yumus Emre.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth
has only one mode of being....Jean Jacques Rousseau.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth.
Then you don't have to remember what you have said,
and you never forget what you have said....Sam Rayburn.
The open-minded see the truth in
different things: the narrow-minded see
only the differences....Unknown.
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate....Martin Luther.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just
aggravates itself all the time....Mark Twain.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of
understanding, disbelief or ignorance....W. Clement Stone.
The most natural beauty in the world
is honesty and moral truth. For all
beauty is truth. True features make
the beauty of the face; true proportions,
the beauty of architecture; true measures, the
beauty of harmony and music....Lord Shaftesbury.
Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise
from outward things, whatever you may believe.
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth
abides in fullness and to know rather consists
in opening out a way whence the imprisoned
splendor may escape than in effecting entry for
light supposed to be without....Robert Browning.
Truth is like a torch; the more it is
shook it shines....Sir William Hamilton.
A few observation and much reasoning
lead to error; many observations and a
little reasoning to truth....Alexis Carrel.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be
broken, and always gets above falsehood,
as oil does above water....Miguel De Cervantes.
Truth arises more readily from error
than from confusion....Francis Bacon.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth....Walt Whitman.
If one tells the truth, one is
sure, sooner or later, to be
found out....Oscar Wilde.
In everything truth surpasses the
imitation and copy....Marcus T. Cicero.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her
greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant
companion is Humility....Charles Caleb Colton.
Whenever you have truth it must be given
with love, or the message and the
messenger will be rejected....Mahatma Gandhi.
Only the hand that erases can write
the true thing....Meister Eckhart.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely
comes to light....Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Not being known doesn't stop the
truth from being true....Richard Bach.
Every mind has a choice between truth
and repose. Take which you please; you
can never have both....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I pray without ceasing now.
My personal prayer is:
Make me an instrument which
only truth can speak....Peace Pilgrim.
Truth is its own reward....Plato.
The people have a right to the truth as
they have a right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness....Epictetus.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. But the opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth....Niels Bohr.
It's essential to tell the truth at all
times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying
distorts reality. All forms of distorted
thinking must be corrected....John Bradshaw.
The ultimate aim of the human mind,
in all its efforts, is to become
acquainted with Truth....Eliza Farnham.
Truth uttered before its
time is dangerous....Mencius.
Seeing is believing, but feeling's
the truth....Thomas Fuller.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable
and presuppose one another....Mahatma Gandhi.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if
you never catch up with it....Clarence Darrow.
When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth....Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
It is easier to perceive error than
to find truth, for the former lies
on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search
for it....Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to
see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand
in the window of a castle, and to see a battle
and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure
is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground
of truth...and to see the errors, and wanderings, and
mists, and tempests, in the vale below....Francis Bacon.
Truth is the daughter of time....Proverb.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the
readiest weapon of the enemy....Robert Louis Stevenson.
All necessary truth is its
own evidence....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
There is no such source of error
as the pursuit of truth....Samuel Butler.
To be persuasive, we must be believable.
To be believable, we must be credible. To be
credible, we must be truthful....Hellmut Walters.
Truth does not contradict truth....Elizer Zvi Zweifel.
For here we are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead....Thomas Jefferson.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency
of life as the simple truth....Charles Dickens.
I don't want yes men around me. I want
everyone to tell the truth, even if it
costs them their jobs....Samuel Goldwyn.
Effective thinking consists of being able to
arrive at the truth; truth being defined
as that which exists....Calvin S. Hall.
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the
truth for the inheritance of humanity....George Brandes.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble,
at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all
day like a football, and it will be round and
full at evening....Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Truth is so rare that it is
delightful to tell it....Emily Dickinson.
The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it.
Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head....Hsueh-Dou.
Live truth instead of professing it....Elbert Hubbard.
The man who fears no truth has nothing
to fear from lies....Thomas Jefferson.
The great enemy of the truth is very often
not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and
dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent,
persuasive, and unrealistic....John F. Kennedy.
One unerring mark of the love of truth
is not entertaining any proposition
with greater assurance than the proofs
it is built upon will warrant....John Locke.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to
everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait
till all were agreed....James Russell Lowell.
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as
soon as possible and pass it on to someone
else. As with illness, this is the only way
to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth
in his hands has lost....Jean Baudrillard.
Always tell the truth -- it's the
easiest thing to remember....David Mamet.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral
truth is divine and whoever breathes
its air and walks by its light has
found the lost paradise....Horace Mann.
The greatest homage we can pay truth
is to use it....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Prove all things, hold fast
to that which is true....Bible.
Truth and virtue conquer....Motto.
There are trivial truths and the great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true....Niels Bohr.
Most truths are so naked that people
feel sorry for them and cover them up,
at least a little bit....Edward R. Murrow.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the
hunger for it is....Nadine Gordimer.
The more abstract the truth you want to teach,
the more thoroughly you must seduce the
senses to accept it....Friedrich Nietzsche.
Telling someone the truth is a loving act....Mal Pancoast.
Truth fears nothing but concealment....Proverb.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when
they are usually the truest thing going.
A thing has to be pretty true before it gets
to be a platitude....Katherine F. Gerould.
Better suffer for the truth than
prosper in a falsehood....Danish Proverb.
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous....Greek Proverb.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of
which is its power to shock....Jules Renard.
The truth is on the march and
nothing will stop it....Emile Zola.
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite
patient and relentless....R. Scott Richards.
People say they love truth, but in
reality they want to believe that which
they love is true....Robert J. Ringer.
Truth is not determined by majority vote....Doug Gwyn.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his
side, but not everyone wishes to be
on the side of truth....Richard Whately.
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going
out after something you believe?....Richard D. Rosen.
There is no power on earth more formidable
than the truth....Margaret Lee Runbeck.
I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me....Bible.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to
us a beauty that fades not away in time....Frank Norris.
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may
ever dream of determining and knowing this truth,
is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of
the thing no less than the thing itself....William Saroyan.
Truth lives on in the midst of deception....Johann Friedrich Von Schiller.
The truth is lived, not taught....Hermann Hesse.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible,
I cannot make the truth appear so....George Bernard Shaw.
The great seal of truth is simplicity....Herman Boerhaave.
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak,
and another to hear....Henry David Thoreau.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth....Harry S. Truman.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation
is to tell the strict truth....Mark Twain.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it....Unknown.
The pure and simple truth is
rarely pure and never simple....Oscar Wilde.
The truth is more important than the facts....Frank Lloyd Wright.
The pursuit of truth does not permit
violence on one's opponent....Mahatma Gandhi.
The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second
wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote,
women are strongest: but above all things
truth beareth away the victory....Bible.
If we all worked on the assumption that what
is accepted as true is really true, there
would be little hope of advance....Orville Wright.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality....Paramahansa Yogananda.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground,
it will but grow, and gather to itself such
explosive power that the day it bursts through
it will blow up everything in its way....Emile Zola.
It is error alone which needs the
support of government. Truth can
stand by itself....Thomas Jefferson.
Have a deep respect for the source of life
and also for the ocean, for the forest,
for the stars and for the truth....Unknown.
Truth is the property of no individual but is
the treasure of all men....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Truth is reality....Mary Caroline Richards.
The poet's job is to put into words those
feelings we all have that are so deep, so
important, and yet so difficult to name, to
tell the truth in such a beautiful way that
people cannot live without it....Jane Kenyon.
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will
give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving,
and turn away your mind from those that inspire you
with fear, sadness, depression....Bertrand Wilbertforce.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then.
Life is dull without it....Pearl S Buck.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, --
"Let there be truth between us two forevermore"....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat
endlessly to yourself. "It all depends on me"....Andre Gide.
The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in
the end it blossoms like a rose....Samuel Ha-Nagid.
Time is precious, but truth is more
precious than time....Benjamin Disraeli.
The man who speaks the truth
is always at ease....Persian Proverb.
Truth is stranger than fiction....Lord Byron.
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when
humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the
truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or
misinformation. And there is no better system for determining
the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea
in the waters of public discussion and debate....Dave Rodgers.
The ideals which have always shown before me
and filled me with the joy of living are
goodness, beauty and truth....Albert Einstein.
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious
of none. Recognizing our limitations and
imperfections is the first requisite of
progress. Those who believe they have
"arrived" believe they have nowhere to go.
Some not only have closed their minds to new
truth, but they sit on the lid....Dale Turner.
Telling someone the truth is a loving act....Mal Pancoast.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth,
for the former lies on the surface and is easily
seen, while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search for it....Goethe.
Learn to see things as they really are,
not as we imagine they are....Vernon Howard.
It is easier to find a score of
men wise enough to discover the
truth than to find one intrepid
enough, in the face of opposition,
to stand up for it....A. A. Hodge.
Beware of the half truth. You may have
gotten hold of the wrong half....Unknown.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens,
but does not convert....Pasquier Quesnel.
Truth comes only to a prepared mind....Unknown.
Truth will always be truth, regardless
of lack of understanding, disbelief
or ignorance....W. Clement Stone.
Let the people know the truth and
the country is safe....Abraham Lincoln.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave
elegance to the tailor....Albert Einstein.
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