Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Truth - Quotes

People can’t change truth, but the truth can change people. - Unknown

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George R.R. Martin

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. - Andy Rooney

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. - Aristotle

Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, the mind overlooks the plain truth of the moment. - Lao Tzu

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. - Dan Brown

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. - Joe Abercrombie

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. - Unknown

Questions are key to door of truth. - Charlie Chan

Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking. - Eliza Cook

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. - Henry David Thoreau

Searching for the truth is easy. Accepting the truth can be hard. - Unknown

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. - Baltasar Gracian

Some people do not mind the lies told about them. It is the truth that bothers them. - Unknown

Some things are too terrible to be true. - Bob Dylan

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