Truth Quotes

• Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Friend
  • Plato
  • Aristotle

• What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • True
  • Faith
  • Alone

• It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man … First, Rousseau’s man, the Titan who raises himself … and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe’s man … a spectator of the world … Third Schopenhauer’s man … voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • World
  • Nature
  • Age

• Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

  

  Charles Bradlaugh
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Search

• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Runaway

• I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Truth

• Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

  

  Aristotle
  • Decision
  • Give
  • Dispute

• As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

  

  Jeff Gannon
  • Truth

• Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Crushed

• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Stars
  • Background

• Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Dog

• 'I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God.' And I say no, it's not, Dad. 'Well, I believe that it is.' Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost 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
  • Errors
  • Adventures
  • Castle

• Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • World
  • Tribulation
  • Pangs

• Wilem tapped Simmon’s shoulder. 'He’s telling the truth.'Simmon glanced over at him. 'Why do you say that?''He sounds more sincere than that when he lies.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Lies

• I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Real
  • Business

• Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Power
  • Truth

• Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Passion

• Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Truth

• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Believe
  • Done

• In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

  

  Hypatia
  • Men
  • Truth

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