Truth Quotes
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Truth is strong medicine. It should be prescribed with great care.
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Truth never perishes.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
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The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.
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If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory.
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And just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?
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Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
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A radical is one who speaks the truth.
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The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.
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Truth, like climate, is common property.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
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In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
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When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.
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The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
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It's always best to tell the truth.
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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
