Truth Quotes
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca the Younger
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Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are tell the truth, stop waiting to be rescued, and give away what you want the most.
Eve Ensler
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I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
Rene Descartes
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Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie
Sarah Dessen
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Seneca the Younger
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I speak the truth, and everybody else knows it.
Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
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Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.
Brent Stirton
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
William Faulkner
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Truth hath a quiet breast.
William Shakespeare
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
Blaise Pascal
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Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
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Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something... it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!
Errol Morris
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Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Phaedrus
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
Jane Austen
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All the excitement had worn off - all the veneer to the relationship - and the reality was setting in that we were just very different people with very different values at the end of the day. But we had such a history and also a friendship at the beginning of it, that it was very hard to know what to do with that truth.
Jonny Hawkins
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
Thomas Carlyle
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
Mahatma Gandhi