Truth Quotes

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

George Bancroft

It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet and know in silence that the true story can never be told, articulated in a way that will tell the whole truth. Even if it is better to be quiet, quietness will never reign. People talked, even the best of them.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in the least care whether the truth proved to be in favour of the opinion which we had begun by expressing, or of the opinion of our adversary. That we should regard as a matter of no moment, or, at any rate, of very secondary consequence; but, as things are, it is the main concern. Our innate vanity, which is particularly sensitive in reference to our intellectual powers, will not suffer us to allow that our first position was wrong and our adversary’s right. The way out of this difficulty would be simply to take the trouble always to form a correct judgment. For this a man would have to think before he spoke. But, with most men, innate vanity is accompanied by loquacity and innate dishonesty. They speak before they think; and even though they may afterwards perceive that they are wrong, and that what they assert is false, they want it to seem thecontrary. The interest in truth, which may be presumed to have been their only motive when they stated the proposition alleged to be true, now gives way to the interests of vanity: and so, for the sake of vanity, what is true must seem false, and what is false must seem true.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I have been considering the possibility that the facts that can be ascertained about this cheese fail to satisfy because the facts themselves mask a metaphysical truth that can be known only through the transcendent, poetic expression of the cheddar. That is, though the world itself can never truly be known, one might begin to know some truth about the world through a metaphysical cheese

Mark Beauregard

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

Love is the key to everything, because it is the force that keeps and maintains everything.

Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent

If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..

Alcurtis Turner

She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened.

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

Provide a safe place for people to be their 100% self, this world is already guarded and fearful, trained to keep walls up and throw away the keys. A harden heart is no pure reality and for too long, we have all stood to allow it; so instead of excusing mimisfortune, let's bathe eachother in compassion and grow beyond what we've been taught

Prose lies its way to the truth

Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.

Osho

Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong, Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,Create a new;from the wisdom of the past, Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.

Once we were a stranger... just passing by.......in school... we never know each other... but one day came and we became friends.

If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard time seeing the whole picture, since the truth is a willful construction that allows us often merely to “guess”. ("Hinter der Mattscheibe")

Erik Pevernagie

My visage high above your city,Shines like gold, but half as pretty.Arms I've none, but hands I've two:Mondo, mini, black not blue.Climb my stairs and have no fears, All that threatens are my gears.Tucked beneath the mightly wheel,An envelpe shall truth reveal.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

I don't give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

Harry S. Truman

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.

One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

William Hazlitt

If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup.

Turkish Proverb

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

Thomas Jefferson

Pretty much all the honest truthtelling there is in the world is done by children.

Anonymous

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

Voltaire

What I tell you three times is true.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

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

There's such a thing as moderation even in telling the truth.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place else.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.

Barry Goldwater

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Proverb

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.

Persian Proverb

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Don't be consistent but be simply true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When one has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

G. C. Lichtenberg

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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