Truth famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
-- A. J. Burnett -
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.
-- A.J. Ayer -
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
-- Abel Hermant -
The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.
-- Abraham Coles -
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 -
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.
-- Ada Lovelace -
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
-- Adi Shankara -
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-- Adolf Hitler -
Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
-- Adolf Hitler -
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
-- Adrien-Marie Legendre -
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
-- Aesop -
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
-- Ala Bashir -
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
-- Alan Arkin -
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
-- Albert Camus -
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
-- Albert Camus -
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
-- Albert Camus -
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
-- Albert Camus -
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
-- Albert Camus -
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
-- Albert Camus -
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
-- Albert Camus -
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
-- Albert Camus -
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
-- Albert Einstein -
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
-- Albert Einstein -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
-- Albert Einstein -
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
-- Albert Einstein -
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
-- Albert Einstein -
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-- Albert Einstein -
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
-- Albert Einstein -
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
-- Albert Einstein -
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-- Albert Einstein -
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
-- Albert Einstein -
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
-- Albert Einstein -
if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.
-- Albert Low -
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
-- Aldous Huxley -
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
-- Aldous Huxley -
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
-- Aldous Huxley -
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.
-- Alexander Haig -
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
-- Alexander Jablokov -
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
-- Alexander Pope -
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
-- Alexander Pope -
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
-- Alexis Carrel -
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
-- Alfred Adler -
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Whatever you say about something, it is not.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
Change lays not her hand upon truth.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
-- Alice Miller -
I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.
-- Alice Miller -
Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.
-- Alice Miller -
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
-- Alison Lurie -
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 -
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
-- Alvan Macauley -
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
Truth is often attended with danger.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott
