Truth Quotes
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
Hannah Arendt
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A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.
T. H. White
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Plato
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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
Aristotle
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Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.
Cindy Morgan
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Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Bryant H. McGill
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
Thomas Hardy
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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
D. T. Suzuki
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Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
Blaise Pascal
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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
Plato
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The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
Eileen Pollack
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The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Barnes
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The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
David Ogden Stiers
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We should consider every day lost on 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
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
Max Planck
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Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
Arthur Helps
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
Victor Hugo