Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
~ Aesop
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
~ Maya Angelou
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
~ Bo Bennett
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
~ William Blake
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
~ Allan Bloom, in The Closing of the American Mind (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1987), page 25
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
~ Georges Braque
The absolute truth is indestructible. Being eternal, it is self-existent. Being self-existent, it is infinite. Being infinite, it is vast and deep. Being vast and deep, it is transcendental and intelligent.
~ Confucius, in The Doctrine of the Mean
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
Th’ eternal years of god are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
~ William Cullen Bryant, in The Battlefield, st. 9
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
~ Winston Churchill
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
~ Clarence Darrow
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in you life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
~ Rene Descartes
There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, the immutable truth is also dead and buried.
~ John Dewey
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
~ Denis Diderot
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~ Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
~ Albert Einstein
Half a truth is often a great lie.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
~ Galileo Galilei
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
~ James A. Garfield
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
~ George Herbert
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Seek the truth
Listen to the truth
Teach the truth
Love the truth
Abide by the truth
And defend the truth
Unto death.
~ John Hus
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
~ Aldous Huxley
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
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
~ John F. Kennedy
If God should hold enclosed in his right hand all truth, and in his left hand only the ever-active impulse after truth, although with the condition that I must always and forever err, I would with humility turn to his left hand, and say, “Father, give me this . . . ”
~ Gotthold E. Lessing, in Anti-Gotze
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
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
~ Martin Luther
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice no matter who it’s for or against.
~ Malcolm X
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
~ Horace Mann
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
~ Thomas Mann
Relativism, then is a position for which the world still awaits an argument. It is also self-defeating in the sense that every self-styled relativist is forced, sooner or later, to appeal to absolutes of his own making. And it is a theory that robs life of elements needed for any life to have meaning.
~ Ronald Nash, in The Closing of the American Heart, page 67
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
~ Isaac Newton
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
~ Flannery O’Connor
Truth without emotion produces dead orthodoxy and a church full (or half full) of artificial admirers (like people who write generic anniversary cards for a living). Emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the disciplines of rigorous thought. But true worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections from God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
~ John Piper, in Desiring God (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1986), page 76
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
~ Elvis Presley
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
~ Henry Rollins
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
~ Andy Rooney
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is always the strongest argument.
~ Sophocles
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~ W. Clement Stone
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
~ Tertullian
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~ Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
~ Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth.
~ Mark Twain
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
~ George Washington
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~ Oscar Wilder
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf
The truth is more important than the facts.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Eyes blinded by the fog of Things cannot see Truth. Ears deafened by the din of Things cannot hear Truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of Things cannot think Truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of Things cannot feel Truth. Throats choked by the dust of Things cannot speak Truth.
~ Harold Bell Wright, from The Uncrowned King (1910)
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