Truth Quotes
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Next to the ridicule of denying an evident truth, is that of taking much pains to defend it; and no truth appears to me more evident, than that beasts are endow'd with thought and reason as well as men. The arguments are in this case so obvious, that they never escape the most stupid and ignorant.
David Hume -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
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Americans can't handle the truth.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
I think that his history of mendacity is so intense and so long-lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.
Jack Straw -
The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In actuality, Muppets was a word we just coined. It was merely to be the name of our act. ... I used to say to people that it was a combination of 'marionettes' and 'puppets.' ... But then I stopped telling this lie, and I'm back to the truth: It just came out of midair.
Jim Henson -
Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.
Winnie Holzman -
I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.
Kristin Gore
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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.
Joanne Rowling -
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo -
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
John Cornforth -
There is no wisdom save in truth.
Martin Luther -
The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.
Sia LSD
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Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
C. H. Dodd -
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Victor Hugo -
What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Bob Marley -
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill -
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.
Lao Tzu
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I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.
Anne Heche -
For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.
T. Harv Eker -
Truth is a big concept.
Lukas Foss -
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal