Truth Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of truth quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“There is no god higher than truth.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“It is error alone which needs the support of government.  Truth can stand by itself.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.”
– Werner Heisenberg

“A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.”
– F.W. Farrar

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
– Galileo Galilei

“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
– Martin Luther

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
– Martin Luther King

“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”
– Antonio Porchia

“Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please – you can never have both.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.”
– Shoseki

“Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found.”
– W. Macneile Dixon

“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.”
– William James

“It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.”
– Adrian Rodgers

“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.”
– Agnes Repplier

“In a free society, there comes a time when the truth — however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say — must be told.”
– Al Gore

“The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”
– Albert Einstein

“First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along.”
– Alexander Humbold

“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”
– Amos Bronson Alcott

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
– Andre Gide

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.”
– Austin O’Malley

“Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.”
– Austin O’Malley

“Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.”
– Austin O’Malley

“Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.”
– Austin O’Malley

“…for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.”
– Blaise Pascal

“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.”
– Blaise Pascal

“The truth was obscure, too plain and too pure. To live it you had to explode.”
– Bob Dylan

“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
– Bronson Alcott

“Not everything that’s true needs to be said.”
– Cassandra Clare

“Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Our first decision about Truth is based upon Who Jesus is. With that question settled many Christians are content, but Truth is living. Truth will continue to reveal Himself to us and around us for as long as we will allow it.”
– Chip Brogden

“The one who buries the Truth in the ground for safekeeping will lose it, while the one who does something with the Truth will receive more Truth. This is why some grow spiritually and some do not.”
– Chip Brogden

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