Truth Quotes

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God

Wallace D. Wattles

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

Nothing is beautiful, except man alone: all aesthetics rests upon this naÔvetÈ, which is its first truth. Let us immediately add the second: nothing is ugly except the degenerating manóand with this the realm of aesthetic judgment is circumscribed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Marcellinus Ammianus

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.

Clarence W. Hall

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Ken Auletta

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Martin Luther

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

Ada Velez-Boardley

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations... symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty.

Commander Spock

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.

Confucius

Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D.H. Lawrence

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies

Pietro Aretino

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Maya Angelou

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Albert Schweitzer

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

George Bancroft

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed.

Plato

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot