Famous Quotes
- Truth is what works.
- William James on Truth
- Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
- Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
- William James on Truth
- Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Truth
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Truth
- Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Truth
- Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
- Joseph Conrad on Truth
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- William Penn on Truth
- Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
- John Updike on Truth
- Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
- David Hume on Truth
- Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Truth
- Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
- Marquis De Sade on Truth
- Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
- Herman Melville on Truth
- Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
- Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
- W. Clement Stone on Truth
- Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Truth
- Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
- George Washington on Truth
- Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
- James Russell Lowell on Truth
- Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
- Leo Tolstoy on Truth
- Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
- Albert Camus on Truth
- Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Truth
- Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on Truth
- Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
- John Le Carre on Truth
- Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
- Oliver Tambo on Truth
- Veiling truth in mystery.
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Truth
- Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
- Neal Boortz on Truth
- We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw on Truth
- We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso on Truth
- We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
- Charles Stanley on Truth
- We are free to yield to truth.
- We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy on Truth
- We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Truth
- We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
- We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
- William James on Truth
- We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
- Blaise Pascal on Truth
- We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
- Michelle Obama on Truth
- We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
- Javier Bardem on Truth
- We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
- Marcel Proust on Truth
- We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill on Truth
- We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Truth
- We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
- We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Truth
- We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
- We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot on Truth
- We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
- George Harrison on Truth
- We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
- Warren Buffett on Truth
- Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
- Laura Schlessinger on Truth
- What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- Henry Miller on Truth
- What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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