Sunday, 30 December 2018

Truth - Quotes

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice. - Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. - James Russell Lowell

The ultimate truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They are not the Way. - Bodhidharma

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some truths may be proclaimed upon the housetop; others may be spoken by the fireside; still others must be whispered in the ear of a friend. - Rossiter Johnson

Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. - Unknown

The inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of Truth which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. - Francis Bacon

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold. - Aristotle

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most effectual method of expelling error, is, not to meet it sword in hand, but gradually to instil great truths, with which it cannot easily coexist. - William E. Channing

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. - Ann Landers

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth. - Austin O’Malley

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. - George Eliot

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. - Rebecca West

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. - Richard P. Feynman

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