Truth Quotes

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

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

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Facts are stubborn things.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

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