Truth Quotes
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For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
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An attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
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Truth will only make you unpopular.
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The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.
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Truth serves only its slaves.
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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What, can the devil speak true?
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.
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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
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People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
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Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
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I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.
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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.
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Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.
