Truth Quotes - Page 21

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Honesty

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• May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Love, God, Mom

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from May 10, 2015

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Platitudes

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Truth allows no choice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Choices

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets, Etc. [With a Portrait.]”, p.85

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• I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Honesty

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

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• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Honesty, Long

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

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• The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Practice, Civilization, Fundamentals

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Fear, Acceptance

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Life, Humor

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2009

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• If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

  Pietro Aretino

  Funny, Neighbors And Friends, Want

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• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Hurt, Honesty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.412, Wordsworth Editions

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• Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

  Malcolm X

  Racism, Hajj, Civil Rights

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

  Ludwig Borne

  Life, Sunset, Knowledge

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• Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Errors, Committed

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• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Vision, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Life's as kind as you let it be.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Kind, Wise Words

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• I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sick, Interesting, Ego

  "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1961.

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• There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

  Doris Lessing

  Jobs, Writing, Doubt

  "Under My Skin". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1994.

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• There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Patience, Perseverance

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• But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, History, Cuckoos

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Lying, Sometimes, Extras

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Extras”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

  Robert Frost

  Atheism, Would Be, Too Much

  "A Boy's Will and North of Boston".

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• A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Being True, Persons

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Love You, Wish

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Lying, Hazards, Life Learning

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

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