Quotes
Quotes about Truth
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.
Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school, And took for truth the test of ridicule; Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest, Truth was with her of ridicule the test.
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.
