Truth Quotes

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I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

William Shakespeare

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a Thorn, — it looks so old, In truth, you'd find it hard to say How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and gray.

William Shakespeare

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

G. K. Chesterton

Knowledge is the highest good, truth the supreme value, all the rest is secondary and subordinate.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Henry David Thoreau

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

Charles Dickens

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Benjamin Franklin

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.