Truth Quotes - Page 16

• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

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• The whole is the false.

  Theodor Adorno

  Whole

  Theodor W. Adorno, Richard D. Leppert (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

  Denis Diderot

  Looks, Expected, I Can

  "Philosophical Thoughts". Book by Denis Diderot, 1746.

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• Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

  John Milton

  Air, Quiet, Study

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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

  Albert Camus

  Firsts

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Criminal Mind, Matter

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book byMalcolm X (p. 400), 1965.

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• Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Ministry

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• They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

  Gerald Massey

  Inspirational, Life, Taken

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• Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Sake, Virtue, Clergy

  Reviewing J. A. Froude's History of England, in 'Macmillan's Magazine' January 1864

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Found, Knows

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• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Realizing

  "Leventis Knew Where the Truth Lies". Speech by Androulla Vassiliou at the opening of A.G Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, March 21, 2014.

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• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  T. S. Eliot

  Character, Facts, Significant

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• Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Funny, Life, Stories

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Family, Opposites

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• Truth disappears with the telling of it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Telling The Truth, Disappear

  Lawrence Durrell (1960). “Clea”

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• The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

  William James

  Lying, Philosophical, Coaching

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, March

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Life, Change

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Anger, Empathy, Silence

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

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Honesty

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• Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

  John Tillotson

  Lines, Way, Ends

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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

  Alexis Carrel

  Errors, Littles, Observation

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