Quotes about truth

"Too much truth is uncouth."

Adams, Franklin P. on truth
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"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth."

Adler, Alfred on truth   

"If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous."

Alder, Alfred on truth
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"That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful."

Anderson, Sherwood on truth   

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods."

Arendt, Hannah on truth   

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

Aristotle on truth
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"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

Aristotle on truth
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."

Augustine, St. on truth
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"One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth."

Aurelius, Marcus on truth   

"We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self."

Bach, Dr. Marcus on truth
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]"

Bach, Richard on truth
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"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

Bach, Richard on truth
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"Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience."

Backus, Azel on truth   

"Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion."

Bacon, Francis on truth   

"It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below."

Bacon, Francis on truth   

"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."

Bacon, Francis on truth   

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

Bailey, Pearl on truth
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"A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it."

Baldwin, James on truth   

"We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."

Baldwin, James on truth   

"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."

Balfour, Arthur James on truth   

"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

Ballou, Hosea on truth
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"There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth."

Barnes, Leonard on truth   

"With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost."

Baudrillard, Jean on truth   

"Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help."

Benjamin, Walter on truth   

"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."

Berenson, Bernard on truth   

"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."

Berlin, Irving on truth   

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Bible on truth   

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"Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true."

Bible on truth   

"Seek and you will find."

Bible on truth   

"The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]"

Bible on truth   

"The truth shall set you free."

Bible on truth
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"Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance."

Bierce, Ambrose on truth   

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

Billings, Josh on truth   

"I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out."

Birmingham, Wayne on truth
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"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

Bismarck, Otto Von on truth
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"The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent"

Blake, William on truth   

"When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do."

Blake, William on truth   

"For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away."

Blake, William on truth   

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

Blake, William on truth   

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed."

Blake, William on truth