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Quotes including the word “truth”.

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Aeschylus

In war, truth is the first casualty

Thomas Aquinas

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Isaac Asimov

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Bataille

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Bataille

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction

Georges Braque

Truth exists; only lies are invented

Giordano Bruno

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Buddha

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

George Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Calderon

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it”

Cervantes

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

Cicero

The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.

Confucius

The object of the superior man is truth.

Gustave Courbet

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Darwin

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Diderot

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Elytis

“If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”

Faulkner

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

Plinius Gaius

Truth comes out in wine.

Galileo Galilei

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

Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Maxim Gorky

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Hatim

He who speaks the truth is always tranquil.

Hypatia

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Hypatia

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Hypatia

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Kepler

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Jack Kerouac

The only truth is music.

L. Martin King,

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Lamartine

Utopias are often just premature truths.

Wanda Landowska

Friendship is more important than truth.

Laozi

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lenin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

John Locke

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Thomas Mann

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Herman Melville

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Menander

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

Edna Milley

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

John Milton

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Jim Morrison

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Guru Nanak

There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

Isaac Newton

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Nietzsche

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.

Amos Oz

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

Dorothy Parker

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Valery Paul

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Petrarca

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Pindar

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pittacus

"Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

Elder the Pliny

Truth comes out in wine.

A. Edgar Poe,

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Pushkin

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Rolland

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Christina Rossetti

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Gabrielle Roy

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Carl Sandburg

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Schiller

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.

Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Schubert

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Seneca

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Spinoza

“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

John Steinbeck

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

Igor Stravinsky

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Tennyson

"A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies."

Henry Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Mark Twain

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

Verdi

Copying the truth is a good thing, but discovering the truth is much better.

Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Vonnegut

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Walt Whitman

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

Wollstonecraft

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.