- Ideas are, in truth, force.
- Henry James on Truth
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Thomas Carlyle on Truth
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- Horace Mann on Truth
- If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
- E. O. Wilson on Truth
- If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
- John Cleese on Truth
- If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Truth
- If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
- H. P. Lovecraft on Truth
- If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
- Karl Kraus on Truth
- If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Truth
- If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
- Hans Eysenck on Truth
- If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
- John Le Carre on Truth
- If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
- Pablo Picasso on Truth
- If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
- Lily Tomlin on Truth
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
- James Madison on Truth
- If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
- Frances Wright on Truth
- If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein on Truth
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Virginia Woolf on Truth
- If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
- Will Rogers on Truth
- 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.
- C. S. Lewis on Truth
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Truth
- If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
- Emile Zola on Truth
- If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
- Larry David on Truth
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain on Truth
- If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
- Logan P. Smith on 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.
- Rene Descartes on Truth
- If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder on Truth
- Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson on Truth
- Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
- Christopher Fry on Truth
- In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell on Truth
- In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
- Hugh Walpole on Truth
- In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
- Leonard Cohen on Truth
- In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
- A. Philip Randolph on Truth
- In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Truth
- In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
- In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein on Truth
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Truth
- In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson on Truth
- In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
- Suze Orman on Truth
- In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
- Stephen Colbert on Truth
- In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
- In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
- William Osler on Truth
- In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
- Walter Cronkite on Truth
- In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
- In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
- Michael Musto on Truth
- In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
- June Jordan on Truth
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson on Truth
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill on Truth
- Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
- Joyce Meyer on Truth
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