Truth Quotes

18464 Truth quotes by 6796 unique authors

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never saw any good that came of telling truth. — John Dryden
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing… — John Milton
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to… — Lawrence M. Krauss
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind. — Luigi Pirandello
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. — Marcel Proust
Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her. — Mark Akenside
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes,… — Maxim Gorky
Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul. — Maxim Gorky
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed… — Peter Altenberg
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. — Robert M. Pirsig
Truth is within ourselves. — Robert Browning
Truth never hurts the teller. — Robert Browning
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne
Truth - there's no such thing. — Unknown Author
There is truth and falsehood in a comma. — Tom Stoppard
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where. — William Cowper
Truth will only make you unpopular. — Wolfgang Borchert
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. — Henry David Thoreau
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody… — Robert Anton Wilson
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the… — Anton Szandor LaVey
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty — Unknown Author

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