Truth

We all want to know the truth. Sometimes, we demand to know the truth. But the truth can sometimes hurt. And when that happens, we regret knowing the truth. We wished we would never know the truth. Perhaps that is why they say ignorance is bliss.

Sometimes, it is true that what we do not know does not hurt us. The truth might set you free, but it might just make you miserable first. If that were so, would you still want to know the truth?

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

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. - Edgar J. Mohn

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. - Maurice Maeterlinck

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. - Thomas Cooper

Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safir

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

Truth is always hidden like a shadow in darkness. - Unknown

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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Truth - Quotes

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. - Aristotle

The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man’s insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes – dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery. - Raymond B. Fosdick

The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems. - Cormac McCarthy

Truth - Quotes

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true ... written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us ... vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called ... re-membered ... re-cognized ... as that which is already inside us. - Dan Brown

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulent as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects. - Leonard da Vinci

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. - Kahlil Gibran

Truth - Quotes

We can, in general, be much less sure of the truth of a thing, than of the falsehood; because though every part we have seen may agree, yet we cannot tell how many may be behind, and one failure of connection will be sufficient to falsify the whole. - Fluke Greville

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive fights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jeffeson

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. - Luc de Clapiers

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. - Walter Lippmann

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place – and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all – so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time. - Iain M. Banks

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anais Nin

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us. - E. H. Chapin

Truth - Quotes

We all seek to know the truth about everything around us except ourselves; because it hurts to know about one’s own limitations and to admit them. - Unknown

We cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it. - Raven

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever. - Marcel Proust

We shall find some things that are true, and some that are new, but very few things that are both true and new. - Charles Caleb Colton

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - Denis Diderot

What people believe prevails over the truth. - Sophocles

What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. - Robert M. Pirsig

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. - Anais Nin

When the love of truth rules in the heart, the light of truth will guide the practice. - Benjamin Whichcote

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When you open your mind to the impossible, sometimes you find the truth. - Dr. Walter Bishop

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. - Bill Copeland

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. - Aristotle

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. - George Harrison

You can’t change the truth, but the truth can change you. - Unknown

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts. - Austin O’Malley

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. - Anne Lamott

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth. - Horace Mann

Truth - Quotes

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle lights. - Francis Bacon

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. - Unknown

Truth is both arms and armour. - Edward Counsel

Truth is always hidden like a shadow in darkness. - Unknown

Truth is always strange – stranger than fiction. - George Byron

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold

Truth sometimes like stab of cruel knife. - Charlie Chan

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. - Mencius

Truth wears an unchanging countenance. - Edward Counsel

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. - Bishop Robert South

Truth will only make you unpopular. - Wolfgang Borchert

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light. - George Washington

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. - H. L. Mencken

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. - Ursula K Le Guin

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy 

Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards. - Edward Counsel

Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface. - Charlie Chan

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. - Walter Savage Landor

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, like the sun, only for a time. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. - Augustus Hare

Truths kindle light for truths. - Lucretius

Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes – never! - Mikhail Bulgakov

Truth - Quotes

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. - Francis Bacon

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. - George Eliot

Truth is a demure lady, much too lady-like to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but the people must want her, and seek her out. - Unknown

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority: it is the highest summit of art and of life. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not. - Unknown

Truth is within ourselves. - Robert Browning

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. - Bolingbroke

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep. - Austin O’Malley

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes

Truth never changes. - Rueben Thomas

Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never lost ground by enquiry. - William Penn

Truth often spoils the dinner. - Edward Counsel

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. - William Penn

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. - Shaseki

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible. - Eddie Cantor

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market. - Gao XingJian

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

Truth - Quotes

There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. - Thomas Jefferson

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. - William James

There is often more truth in the censure of enemies than in the flattery of friends. - Norman MacDonald

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbour figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies. - Philip Roth

There is Truth to be found out there, but the search is best done through doubt rather than conviction. - Unknown

There's many a true word spoken in jest. - James Joyce

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it. - Confucius

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us. - Samuel Richardson

Thorough truthfulness – truthfulness to others and to ourselves – is a rare virtue; and he who indeed acts upon it is the noblest of all heroes. - E. H.Chapin

Those only who can bear the truth will hear it. - Arthur Helps

Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights. - Eliza Cook

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. - Frank Herbert

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant. - Mikhail Bulgakov

To take thought, to take truth, and translate them into life – that is the hard, hard battle. - Rueben Thomas

Too much truth is uncouth. - Franklin P. Adams

Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it. - Donald Barthelme

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature. - Francis Bacon

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. - Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and justice are not always wholly compatible. - Brother Cadfael

Truth brings closure. - Gil Grissom

Truth can strike down the spectre of fear. - Unknown

Truth - Quotes

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Sebastian Agar

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. - H. L. Mencken

The Truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake

The truth waits for anyone who wishes to find it. - Unknown

The truth will come out, it always does. - William Bell

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. - James A. Garfield

The truth, it has the habit of revealing itself. - Hercule Poirot

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. - George Eliot

The way you twist the truth should make you a very successful politician. - Colonel Downey

The words of truth are always paradoxical. - Lao Tzu

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - The Buddha

There are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen. - Ken Kesey

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. - Charles Caleb Colton

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth, because its opposite is falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth. - Niels Bohr

There is a basic truth in everyone we meet. Look closely and listen well, and the true meaning of a fellow-man will be revealed. - Unknown

Truth is both the way and the goal, the direction to the destination and the destination itself. - Unknown

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. - Theodore Parker

Truth - Quotes

The truth can both lift up and knock down. - Kirby Larson

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it. - David Weber

The truth is always the truth, you can't change that with an edict. - Robin Hood

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. - George Santayana

The truth is hard to swallow when you’re choking on your pride. - Meat Loaf

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. - St. Augustine

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told. - Philip Moeller

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. - Lao Tzu

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. - Alfred Adler

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

The truth is that the way other people treat us isn’t about us – it’s about them and their own struggles, insecurities, and limitations. You don’t have to allow their judgment to become your truth. - Daniel Koepke

The truth is still truth, even if no one believes it. A lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it. - Unknown

The truth may be puzzling. It may be counter intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consistent with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. - Carl Sagan

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true. - Eiji Yoshikawa

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

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

Truth - Quotes

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. - Paul Eldridge

In this world of misery, disease, old age, and death, there is no other protection, refuge or help than our own practice of the truth. Others are powerless; as we sow we reap. - Unknown

In war, truth is the first casualty. - Unknown

In your admiration for truth do not forget that truth can sometimes be as foul as a lie. - Austin O’Malley

Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. - Robert M. Pirsig

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. - Thomas Huxley

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it. - Horace Mann

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it. - John Locke

It is not telling the truth that is difficult, it is telling the whole truth. - Unknown

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. - K. T. Jong

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. - Austin O’Malley

It only takes a few minutes to see the truth of an entire lifetime. - Scott Calvin

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau

Let us begin by commiting ourselves to the truth – to see it like it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. - Richard Nixon

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn. - Brigham Young

Lots of times we don’t even tell people the truth of what we really think because we’re afraid to hurt them and we want to save their feelings, whereas it would be better for them if we were just lovingly honest with them. - Unknown

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe. - William Somerset Maugham

Man is here to search for truth, and to search until he finds it. And he will enjoy it all the more that he has had to search for it. - Reuen Thomas

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as nothing happened. - Winston Churchill

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. - George R.R. Martin

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. - Robert Frost

Truth - Quotes

He who clips away a little truth, and puts in a patch of falsehood to make measure, is likely to become a skilful manufacturer of lies. - John Thornton

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. - Horace Mann

Hurt me with the Truth but, never comfort me with a Lie. - Unknown

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. - Abraham Lincoln

I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. - Howard Zinn

If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error he is liable to give up some truth with it. - Wilbur Wright

If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening. - Confucius

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other! - Washington Allston

If we think we have found truth for ourselves, above all things, let us not impose it on one another. Let us lock upon it all the doors of consciousness. For however inspiring it may be to us, however ennobling, when once we try to impose it on another it becomes a poison. - John Daniel Barry

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. - Unknown

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself. - Cassandra Clare

If you do not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? - Dogen Zenji

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. - Emile Zola

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

If you want to find out the truth, ask effective questions which are open-ended, concise and non-challenging. - Unknown

If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. - Zen Master Seng Tsan

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth – however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say – must be told. - Al Gore

In all debates, let Truth be thy aim, not Victory. - William Penn

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. - Walter Cronkite

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to. - Jennifer Lopez

Truth - Quotes

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. - Edward Abbey

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. - Khaled Hosseini

Children and fools tell the truth. - Unknown

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Discard any self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you. - Nisargadatta

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. - Romain Rolland

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. - Henry Ward Beecher

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. - Aesop

Everyone admits that “the truth hurts” but no one applies this adage to himself – and as soon as it begins to hurt us, we quickly repudiate it and call it a lie. - Sydney J. Harris

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. - Richard Whately

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth. - Luc de Clapiers

For simple are the words of truth. - Aeschylus

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. - Thomas Cooper

From error to error one discovers the entire truth. - Sigmund Freud

Gold is gold, no matter how muddied it becomes. The truth always wins out in the end. - Buddhist Quote

Great truths are portions of the soul of man. - James Russell Lowell

Half a truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin

Half-truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. - David Baldacci

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee. - Immanuel Kant

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men’s opinions. - Daniel Defoe

He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it. - John Locke

Truth

‘Tis strange – but true; for truth is always strange: Stranger than fiction. - Lord G. G. Bryon

’Tis not enough your counsel still be true; blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. - Alexander Pope

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered. - Josephine Hart

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie. - Ivan Panin

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. - Edgar J. Mohn

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A speaker of truth has no friends. - African Proverb

A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. - Italian Proverb

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. - Maurice Maeterlinck

A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake

A wise man always seeks the light of truth and prefers the company of those who know the value of truth to those who trample it under their feet. - Unknown

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths. - Napoleon Hill

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it. - Woody Allen

All truth is not to be told at all times. - Samuel Butler

All truth is platitude and all platitude is truth. - Gore Vidal

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei

An adherence to truth, open and without reservation, has, from the age of chivalry downwards, been considered as one of the loftiest attributes of a "gentleman"; so much so, that, to brand as "a liar" the pretender to such a title, is one of the most deadly insults that you can offer him. - Charles William Day

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. - Mahatma Gandhi

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offense; a vain man, in order that it may. - William Hazlitt

And differing judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where. - William Cowper

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. - Philip K. Dick

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth. - Robert Browning

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings

As the snow before the sun, even so is a polished lie before the naked truth. - William Scott Downey

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth. - Buddha

Be scrupulously truthful even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. - Russell Bertrand

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. - St. Augustine

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. - Wayne W. Dyer

Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - André Gide