category-Truth Quotes

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Juan Goytisolo

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

William Jevons

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

George W. Bush

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Barry Long

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 finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me

Sir Isaac Newton

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Henry David Thoreau

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Henry Ward Beecher

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

Bill Nelson

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton