Quotes
Quotes about Truth
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
Truth fears no trial. -Proverb.
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
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. -Martin Luther King.
Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.
