Quotes on truth
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
Fischer, Martin H.
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.
Maugham, W. Somerset
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
Heisenberg, Werner
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.
Dixon, W. MacNeile
When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Blake, William
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
West, Rebecca
Truth breeds hatred.
Priene, Bias of
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.
de Beauvoir, Simone
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Davis, Jim
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
Maharshi, Ramana
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
Brooke, Stopford
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.
Altenberg, Peter
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Flaubert, Gustave