Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Josette Champagne. -Dogen.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.
