Sunday, 31 March 2019

Truth - Quotes

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend. - Rabindranath Tagore

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom. - Michel Foucault

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul. - Maxim Gorky

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. - Abraham Lincoln

Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. - Sir Winston Churchill

Truth is like a corrosive that will eat its way into the hardest of stone. - Unknown

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. - Elvis Presley

Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street. - Wolfgang Borchert

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. - Mark Twain

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption. - Ambrose Bierce

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit. - Benjamin Whichcote

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. - Miyamoto Musashi

Truth is only path out of tangled web. - Charlie Chan

Truth is only visible to those who are able to question everything that they have been taught to believe. - Unknown

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. - Mark Twain

Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm. - Gary Zukav

Truth is the bread of a noble manhood. - Henry Ward Beecher

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth is the daughter of time. - Aulus Gellius

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate. - Arthur Lynch

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