Truth Quotes - Page 18

• Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Religion, Existentialism

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• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Political, Belief, Mythology

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “I have tried to tell the truth: 1943-1944”

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• But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Liberty, Want, Serious

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Believe, Science

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

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• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

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• No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Lasts, Faces

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  John Travolta

  Reality, Outrageous, Knows

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• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  Orson Welles

  White, Feelings, Theatre

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• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Encouragement, Fear, Failure

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  William Butler Yeats

  War, Thinking, Times Like These

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Witty, Powerful

  Daily News, February 25, 1905.

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• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Philosophy, Fiction

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Lying, May, Happens

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

  Markus Zusak

  Believe, Answers, Sometimes

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• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Funny, Tired, People

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  Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Life, Memorable

  "Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, August 1999.

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• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Liars, Lying

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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• The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Discovery, Doors

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beauty, Beautiful, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  War, Asking Questions, Worry

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

  Lise Meitner

  Acceptance, Science, Reality

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• Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

  Jerry Bridges

  Inspirational, Trust, Bible

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