Quotes

Quotes about Truth


The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton.

Charles Colton

And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.

John Vii

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.

Harry Truman

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.

David Hume

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

David Hsueh-dou

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Thomas Fuller

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.

A. A. Hodge

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

George D. Prentice

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Tom Schulman

Many have screwed the truth, but few have called her the next day.

John C Lehman

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. -Robert M. Pirsig.

Robert M. Pirsig

Truth exists. Only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.

Mark Voltaire

I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.

Sean Baltz

Like the sun, truth is self luminescent. It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense. It is immediately recognized by resonant hearts. It can be hidden for a short time by clouds or by imprisoning others indoors.. but inevitably truth conquers all, as does love. God whose name is Truth whose name is Love is ending the violence in the world now.

O Anna Niemus

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

Galileo Galilei

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston Churchill

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