Truth Quotes
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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
Chogyam Trungpa
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
William James
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
George Saunders
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I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.
Jose Canseco
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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. And besides, I have lived with liars so long that I have lost the tune, & a fact jars upon me like a discord.
Mark Twain
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
William James
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Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
Leon Trotsky
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
Lena Waithe
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Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
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A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.
Martin Luther
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
Andrew Solomon
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There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.
John D. Voelker
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If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I hope 'Bamboozled' will serve as a roadmap that will assist Republicans in reaching out to women, black and Latinos. I believe once minority groups open their eyes and are not afraid to see truth, they will choose the party of Lincoln.
Angela McGlowan
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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.
R. D. Laing
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
Errol Morris
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
Lin Biao
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Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
Thomas Hobbes
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If, after the end of metaphysics, which has been proclaimed by many, there is no final truth and no absolute values orienting and directing political action, then even the noblest democratic, political ideas are finally not only without a foundation; they are then without orientation and can be misused in a populist fashion.
Walter Kasper