Sunday, 9 December 2018

Truth - Quotes

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh

Some sorts of truth are truer than others. - Jack London

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. - Unknown

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; and beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Still another condition of knowing the truth is, I think, the willingness to make some sacrifice for it. - Samuel Longfellow

Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit; swifter than arrows, the light of the truth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. - Edgar Watson Howe

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. - Glen Duncan

Telling the truth is like taking herbs in lieu of drugs. It does not taste well or cure fast, but it works better in the long term and gives fewer side effects to the patient. - Unknown

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. - Max Born

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth. - Ivan Panin

The colour of truth is grey. - Andre Gide

The dissection of the false will never reveal Truth. - Unknown

The dwelling place of truth is in the inner man. And if you discover your own nature as subject to change, then go beyond that nature. Press on toward the source from which the light of reason itself is kindled. - Unknown

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. - William James

The greatest truths are the simplest. - Eliza Cook

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