Truth Quotes:

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

topic: Inspirational, Time, Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth, Irish Beer, Drinkers

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

topic: Honesty, Truth, Slander, Defamation, Libel

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

topic: Truth, Lying, Believe

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Truth

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

- Ada Lovelace

topic: Truth, Order, Analysis

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

- Adela Rogers St. Johns

topic: Truth, Men, Shining, Informers, Nothing But The Truth

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

- Adi Shankara

topic: Truth, Real, Self

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

source: Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

topic: Friends, Truth, Lying

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

topic: Truth, Philosophy, Winning

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

topic: Freedom, Truth, Lying

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

topic: Truth, Fear, Tyrants, War Victory, Evils Of War

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

topic: Truth, Victory, Matter, Individual Happiness

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

topic: Truth, War, Drug

- Adrien-Marie Legendre

topic: Truth, Mean, Mathematics

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Truth, Want, Speak

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Truth, Integrity, Lying, Lies And Liars, Dishonesty And Lying

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

- Aesop

source: Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Two Sides, Different Sides, Fine Feathers

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

source: Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

topic: Truth, Naked, Nudity

Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.

- Ahlam Mosteghanemi

topic: Trust, Truth, Lasts

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Truth, Serenity, Way

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

- Al Pacino

topic: Truth, Lying, Acting, Best Acting, Scarface

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

- Ala Bashir

topic: Art, Truth, Facts

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

- Alan Arkin

source: "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

topic: Truth, Truth Is, Unfolding

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

topic: Life, Truth, Atheism, Myth Of Sisyphus

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

topic: Life, Truth, Passion

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

topic: Beautiful, Truth, Honesty, Lies And Liars, Don't Lie

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

topic: Truth, Essentials, Firsts

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

topic: Truth, Firsts

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

topic: Truth, Believe, Men

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

topic: Truth, Mind, Denial

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

topic: Beautiful, Truth, Lying

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

topic: Life, Truth, Party

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Truth, Gravitation, Lies Truth

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Compassion, Justice For All, Justice Truth

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

topic: Happiness, Truth, Vanity, Joy Of Living, Cattle

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Understanding, Mind Opening, Opening Your Mind

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

topic: Truth, Justice, Community

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Truth, Making Good Choices, Untrustworthy

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

topic: Wise, Funny Inspirational, Truth

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

topic: Truth, Understanding, Steps, Search For Truth

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

topic: Truth, Men, Comfort, Search For Truth

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

topic: Leadership, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Integrity, Not Trusting

if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.

topic: Courage, Children, Truth, Racial Bias

- Albert Low

source: Albert Low (1995). “The World: A Gateway : Commentaries on the Mumonkan”, Tuttle Pub

topic: Truth, Goal, Looks

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Time, Truth, Integrity, Special Times, Live In The Now

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Girl, Truth, Bills

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Thrilling, Brave New World Freedom

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

source: Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House

topic: Country, Kings, Truth

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

topic: Funny, Bible, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Jealousy And Insecurity

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

topic: Good Morning, Truth, Men

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

topic: Truth, Mistake, Men

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

topic: Truth, Views, Silence

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

topic: Truth, Literature, Platitudes

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

source: Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

topic: Motivational, Education, Truth, Knowledge And Ignorance, Analytics

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

topic: Truth, Two, Four

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

topic: Art, Truth, Past

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

source: Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Truth Be Told, Honest Truth

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

topic: Funny, Truth, Add

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

topic: Truth, Real, Causes

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

topic: Truth, Bars, Causes

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

topic: Truth, Embrace, Broads

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Attractiveness

- Alexander Haig

topic: Truth, Loss, Reality, Candor

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

- Alexander Jablokov

topic: Truth, Long, Way

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Truth, People, Littles

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Truth, Honesty, Care

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Truth, Errors, Littles

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Truth, Lying, Reality

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

- Alfred de Vigny

topic: Truth, Honesty, Doubt, Freedom Of Thought

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Truth, Whatever You Say

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Truth, Lying, Deceit, Half Truth, Truth And Falsehood

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Dialogues prologue (1954)

topic: Truth, Half, Half Truth, Whole Truth, Honest Truth

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Truth, Interesting, Important, Propositions, Tautology

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

source: Alfred Russel Wallace (1991). “Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Truth, World, Born

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

source: Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

topic: Beautiful, Respect, Truth, Purchasing, Knowing The Truth

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Truth, Hands

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

- Alice Miller

source: Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.61, Macmillan

topic: Truth, Parent, Essentials

I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

- Alice Miller

topic: Children, Truth, Believe, Knowing The Truth

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

- Alice Miller

topic: Truth, Healing, Emotional

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

- Alison Lurie

source: Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.174, Open Road Media

topic: Truth, Lying, Artist

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

- Ally Carter

source: Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.45, Hachette UK

topic: Truth, Lying, Hazards, Heist, Occupational Hazards

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Country, Truth, Thinking

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

source: John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356

topic: Country, Truth, Reading

Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

- Alvan Macauley

topic: Truth, Character, Giving

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Time, Truth, Philosophy, Desirability

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Truth, Deceptive, Presumption

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

- Ammianus Marcellinus

topic: Truth, Simple, Language

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

- Ammianus Marcellinus

topic: Art, Truth, Simple

Truth is often attended with danger.

- Ammianus Marcellinus

topic: Truth, Truth Is, Danger

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

topic: Truth, School, Charity

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Truth, Rays, Veils

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Truth, Jealous, Sensitive, Sacredness, Encroachment

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it ...

- Amy Krouse Rosenthal

topic: Stars, Truth, Age, Looming

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

topic: Truth, Reality, Political, Religious Dogma

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

topic: Life, Truth, Character

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

topic: Truth, Use, Telling The Truth

One handles truths like dynamite.

topic: Truth, Hypocrisy, Deception, Handle The Truth

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

topic: Truth, Dynamite, Handle

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

topic: Truth, Reality, Expansion

- Anatoli Granovsky

topic: Dream, Truth, Doubt

There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations. There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

- Andre-Marie Ampere

source: "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 158, 1996.

topic: Truth, Simple, Analysis

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

topic: Country, Truth, Years

This is my truth, tell me yours.

- Aneurin Bevan

source: "Labour's lost loves" by Nick McDermott, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2003.

topic: Truth

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Truth, Doe, Blame

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.344, Penguin

topic: Truth, Secret, Exposed

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

- Ann Landers

source: Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

topic: Positive, Witty, Truth, Lies Truth, Don't Lie To Me

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Beautiful, Fashion, Truth

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Truth, Reality, Two

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Truth, Moral, Revolutionary, Moral Obligation

Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

- Anne Monroe

topic: Truth, Healing, Wings

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

topic: Truth, Errors, Progress

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Truth, Powerful, Fiction

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music....

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

topic: Truth, Honesty, World, Features

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

- Anthony de Mello

topic: Truth, Light, Land, If Only You Knew

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

- Antisthenes

topic: Truth, Life Lesson, Healing, Unlearn, Untrue

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Truth, May, Contradicting

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Truth, Truth Is

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Truth, Men, Doubt

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Truth, Dice, Affirmation

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

- Antonio Machado

topic: Truth, Passion, Men

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Suicide, Truth, Few Friends

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Truth, Trying, Way

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

topic: Truth, Science, Thinking, Scientific Truth

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

topic: Truth, History, Giving

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

topic: Truth, Mind, Degrees

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

topic: Love, Friendship, Truth

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

topic: Truth, Liars, Speak, Lies And Liars

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Ethics, Lies Truth, Deviation

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Plato

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

topic: Truth, Knowing, Causes

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

topic: Truth, Would Be

- Arthur Balfour

source: Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

topic: Truth, Moving, World

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

- Arthur Balfour

topic: Truth, Telling The Truth

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Faith, Truth, Regret, Collision

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Philosophy, Watson, Deductions

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Peace, Truth, Fall, Recoil

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

- Arthur Dobrin

topic: Trust, Truth, Honesty, Being Truthful, There Is Always A Way

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Truth, Ends, Ultimate, Ultimate Truth, Truth And Falsehood

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Truth, Ultimate, Falsehood

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

- Arthur Lynch

topic: Stars, Truth, Dark

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 605), 1895.

topic: Truth, Truth Is, Grain

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

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Truth, Spiritual Truth, Being Accepted

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Lying

Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.

- Arun Manilal Gandhi

source: "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

topic: Truth, Philosophy, Grandfather, Finding Out The Truth

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Truth, Writing, Language, Scrutinize

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

- August Kekule

topic: Dream, Truth, Gentleman

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

- Auguste Rodin

source: Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.20, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Truth, Character

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

- Augustus Hare

topic: Witty, Truth, Wittiest

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

- Aulus Gellius

topic: Daughter, Truth, Names

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

source: B. H. Liddell Hart (2009). “Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American”, p.10, Da Capo Press

topic: Truth, War, Power

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

- Babe Paley

topic: Truth, Trust Issues, Matter, Desertion

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Truth, Integrity, Lying, Moral Ethics, Lies In Love

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Truth, Men, Never Forget

Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Time, Truth, Lag

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

- Barack Obama

topic: Truth, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Impossible Odds, Yes We Can

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Truth, Firsts, Casualties

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

- Barbara Stanwyck

topic: Truth, Fake, Made, Secret Life, Being Truthful

It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

source: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.19, Storey Publishing

topic: Truth, Mind, Gone

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

source: "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

topic: Truth, Way, Observation

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

source: "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

topic: Truth, Believe, Helping

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

source: "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1983.

topic: Truth, Agreement, Doe

- Barry White

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Truth, Hypocrisy, Saws

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Truth, Science, Ideas

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Truth, Knowledge, Errors, Nomenclature

Tell troth and shame the devil.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Truth, Devil, Shame

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Truth, Reality, Sometimes

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

source: "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth, Just Being You, Lies Truth

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

source: Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246

topic: Funny, Witty, Truth, Mathematical Logic, Statistician

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

source: Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”

topic: Truth, Men, Law

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

topic: Trust, Time, Truth, Time Is Precious, Precious Time

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

topic: Truth, Learning, History