Quotes About Truth

The need for truth, the lack of truth, the virtues of truth - all of these have provided philosophical meaning to conversations around the world since time began. Some quotes from famous mind throughout the history on the truth:

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

~Abraham Lincoln

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

~Adrienne Rich

False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news.

~Adrienne Rich

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

~Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

~Albert Einstein

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

~Alfred North Whitehead

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

~Anais Nin

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

~Andre Gide

Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~Benjamin Disraeli

#10

You always admire what you really don't understand.

~Blaise Pascal

#11

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

~Blaise Pascal

#12

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

~Brad Holland

#13

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

~Christopher Morley

#14

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

~Corliss Lamont

#15

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#16

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

~David Hume

#17

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

~Domesthenes

#18

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

~Dorothy Thompson

#19

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

~Dorothy Thompson

#20

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

~E.L. Doctorow

#21

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

~Edward R. Murrow

#22

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#23

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

~Elizabeth Kenny

#24

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.

~Emily Dickinson

#25

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.

~Felix Adler

#26

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

#27

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

~Galileo

#28

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

~George Bernard Shaw

#29

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

~George Bernard Shaw

#30

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

~George Eliot

#31

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

~George Orwell

#32

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

~Henri Frederic Amiel

#33

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

~Henry David Thoreau

#34

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear.

~Henry David Thoreau

#35

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

~Henry Ward Beecher

#36

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

~Mark Twain

#37

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

~Mark Twain

#38

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

~William James

#39

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

~William James

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

~ Agnes Repplier.

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