Truth Quotes

Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone.

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

William G. Simms

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Martin Luther King

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winsont Churchill

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.

Martha Boaz

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Sir Henry Wotton

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Bertrand Russell 1872

The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.

Persian Proverb xxxx

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.

Blaise Pascal 1623

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. "It all depends on me."

Andre Gide 1869

Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Gandhi

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

Francis Bacon

Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

Donald Barthelme

Truth is simple. They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.

Henri Barbusse

It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Say not, 'I have found THE truth,' but rather, 'I have found A truth.'

Kahlil Gibran 1883

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau

Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human, and loving, and gentle, and brotherly, the while.

W N Punshon

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth ... The trite subjects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein 1879

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