Truth Quotes
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
Moliere
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The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
William Faulkner
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.
David Rasche
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God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
And wonder Providence is not more sage.
Adversity is the first path to truth:
He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
Lord Byron
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Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
Dennis Miller
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The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
Sigmund Freud
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
Plato
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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.
Victor Hugo
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When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.
Antonio Porchia
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
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I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
Cynthia Kenyon
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'We are all sleeping princesses some time. But it is better to be fully awake, don’t you think?'...'Americans do not want to be awake?''Oh,' Becca said, 'we like the truth all right. When it’s tidy.''Truth is never tidy. Only fairy tales.'
Jane Yolen
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The truth is I loved an audience.
Debbie Reynolds
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In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
Bradley Denton
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Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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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
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Wars, factions, and fighting, have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.
Socrates
