Truth Quotes
As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
John Roger Stephens
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.
William Shakespeare
By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.
Gautama Buddha
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen
I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
For a man's attention
Brings such satisfaction
To the craving in my bones.
William Butler Yeats
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Leslie Fiedler
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Petrarch
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
Thomas Aquinas
The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.
Joel Osteen
I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they're elected, to preserve the peace.
Jimmy Carter
