Truth Quotes

he slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless "We Shelter You America." The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them... from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right.

Fred Woodworth

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

Josh Billings

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle

Albert Einstein

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Czeslaw Milosz

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

Aristotle

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Ludwig Borne

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson

Most jokes state a bitter truth

Larry Gelbart

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.

Dalai Lama

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde