Truth Is Quotes

• The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

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• Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

  George Will

  Sex, Attitude, Reality

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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• The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

  John Baillie

  Christian, Prayer, Truth

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• Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Names, Greed

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

  Thomas Sowell

  Media, Political, Being True

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• The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Comfort

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

  Herbert Agar

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Time for Greatness (1942) ch. 7

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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  Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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  Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Confusion, Simplicity

  Isaac Newton (1994). “Trattato sull Apocalisse”

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• You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Responsibility, Exercise

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• We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

  Tad Williams

  Honesty, Fear, Lying

  Tad Williams (1994). “To Green Angel Tower”, p.667, Penguin

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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  The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

  Eminem

  Love, Life, Crazy

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• The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Inspirational, Beauty, Truth

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.121, A&C Black

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• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Fiction, Stranger

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  Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

  Elvis Presley

  Positive, Trust, Wisdom

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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• What people believe prevails over the truth.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Believe, Divorce

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Thrones

  "The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

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