Truth Quotes - Page 32

• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Real

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Jobs, Cost, Want

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

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

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Attitude, Lying, Knowing Nothing

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Inspiration, Follow Your Dreams

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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  A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.

  Henri Poincare

  Men, Giving, Today

  1904 TheValue of Science.

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• The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Science, Men, Blood

  1930 The Revolt of theMasses.

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• There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Educational, Atheism, Doe

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• Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

  William Penn

  Enquiry, Lost

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.852

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• Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Mind, Done, Truth Is

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• But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

  John Milton

  Integrity, Men, His Love

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.489

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• But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking.

  Margery Sharp

  Way, Commodity, Dangerous

  Margery Sharp (2016). “Britannia Mews: A Novel”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• Time discovers truth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Time

  "On Anger". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 45 AD.

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• Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, I Can, Credible

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• The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Lying, Receiving

  "The Fourfold Way of India" by Rabindranath Tagore, 1924.

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• Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

  Richard Whately

  Wish, Sides

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• Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Lying, Heaven, May

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• I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

  David Duchovny

  Giving Up, Long, X Files

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• 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

  Philosophy, Grandfather, Improvement

  "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.

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

  Arianna Huffington

  Trying, Way, Inevitable

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

  Pope John XXIII

  Rights, Justice, Fundamentals

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

  Kenny Loggins

  Giving, Honest

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

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