- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Baltasar Gracian on Truth
- A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
- Walter Martin on Truth
- A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
- Joseph Conrad on Truth
- A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford on Truth
- A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
- Pearl S. Buck on Truth
- A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Truth
- A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
- Sonia Johnson on Truth
- A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
- A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
- Michael Kinsley on Truth
- A gift of truth is the gift of love.
- David Icke on Truth
- A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
- Alanis Morissette on Truth
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Truth
- A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
- Thomas Mann on Truth
- A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
- Stephen Leacock on Truth
- A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
- Thomas Mann on Truth
- A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
- Georges Bataille on Truth
- A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
- William Shenstone on Truth
- A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
- A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Charles Spurgeon on Truth
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill on Truth
- A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- Vladimir Lenin on Truth
- A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Truth
- A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
- Alfred Adler on Truth
- A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
- Yogi Berra on Truth
- A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
- Nate Silver on Truth
- A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
- Robert Kiyosaki on Truth
- A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
- Jack White on Truth
- A lot of truth is said in jest.
- A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
- James Allen on Truth
- A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
- Patrick Kavanagh on Truth
- A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison on Truth
- 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
- A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck on Truth
- A new untruth is better than an old truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Truth
- A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Theodor Adorno on Truth
- A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
- Graham Greene on Truth
- A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Truth
- A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers on Truth
- A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
- Walter Scott on Truth
- A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck on Truth
- A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus on Truth
- A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake on Truth
- A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
- Quentin Tarantino on Truth
- A writer's job is to tell the truth.
- Andy Rooney on Truth
- Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
- J. Edgar Hoover on Truth
- Adversity is the first path to truth.
- Lord Byron on Truth
- Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
- Paul Scott on Truth
- Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Truth
- All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth
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