Friday, 19 October 2018

Truth - Quotes

Most people don’t really want the truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe us the truth. - Unknown

Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safir

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. - Mark Twain

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. - H. L. Mencken

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. - William Osler

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. - Henry Ward Beecher

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one owns the truth, no person, no prophet, and no holy book. Each of those and, indeed, each person has the ability, the right, and the responsibility to seek and find his or her own truth, and, if found, it may be a truth for that moment, in that situation, and for that person only. - Unknown

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. - Francis Bacon

No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united. - Fluke Greville

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. - Henry Wad Beecher

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen

Not everything that's true needs to be said. - Cassandra Clare

Nothing endures except truth. - Luc de Clapiers

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. - Horace Mann

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim

Our feelings often colour the truth. - Edward Counsel

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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