Quotes about truth

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude."

Gerould, Katherine F. on truth   

"Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth."

Gibran, Kahlil on truth
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"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre on truth
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"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on truth
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"I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job."

Goldwyn, Samuel on truth   

"I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs."

Goldwyn, Samuel on truth   

"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

Gordimer, Nadine on truth   

"What is, is; and what ain't, ain't"

Granville, Joseph E. on truth   

"You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all."

Guest, Edgar A. on truth   

"Truth is not determined by majority vote."

Gwyn, Doug on truth   

"True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."

Halifax, Edward F. on truth   

"Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists."

Hall, Calvin S. on truth   

"Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines."

Hamilton, Sir William on truth
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"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."

Hare, J. C. on truth   

"The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost."

Havel, Vaclav on truth   

"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."

Hayakawa, S. I. on truth   

"Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it."

Helvetius, Claude A. on truth   

"I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true."

Hemingway, Ernest on truth   

"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true."

Hemingway, Ernest on truth   

"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."

Herbert, Frank on truth   

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

Hesiod on truth   

"The truth is lived, not taught."

Hesse, Hermann on truth
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"The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth."

Hesse, Hermann on truth
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"All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths."

Hill, Napoleon on truth   

"Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat."

Hill, Napoleon on truth   

"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth   

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint."

Howard, Vernon on truth   

"Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are."

Howard, Vernon on truth   

"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."

Howe, Edgar Watson on truth   

"The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head."

Hsueh-Dou on truth   

"Live truth instead of professing it."

Hubbard, Elbert on truth
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"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear."

Hussein, King on truth   

"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."

Huxley, Aldous on truth   

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

Huxley, Aldous on truth
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"It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions."

Huxley, Thomas H. on truth   

"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Huxley, Thomas H. on truth