Truth Quotes
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin -
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
Jeane Kirkpatrick -
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
Ernest Holmes -
Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.
George Francis Train -
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.
Alice Bailey -
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
Elizabeth Haydon
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A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
Ashwin Sanghi -
The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
Alex Kozinski -
What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
Vincent McNabb -
There is truth in wine and children.
Plato -
Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn't even think about it.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
Evagrius Ponticus -
The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.
Rebecca Stead -
Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.
Brandon Bays -
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle -
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Victor Hugo -
No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.
Ephrem the Syrian
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A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path-he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity. (63).
Epictetus -
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel Foucault -
The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.
William Howard Taft -
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner