Truth Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.”
– Goethe

“One truth out of context can prove very dangerous.”
– Gregory Phillips

“In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
– Henry Kissinger

“Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.”
– Horace Mann

“The truth … is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
– J. K. Rowling

“There’s many a true word spoken in jest.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses

“Great truths are portions of the soul of man.”
– James Russell Lowell

“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.”
– James Russell Lowell

“History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society’s rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.”
– Jane Hirshfield

“If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.”
– Jane Hirshfield

“I don’t think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That’s a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.”
– Jeff Melvoin

“It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
– Jim Davis

“Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (creator of all things) but through Me.”
– John 14:6

“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”
– John Steinbeck

“I never saw any good that came of telling truth.”
– John Dryden, Amphitryon

“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.”
– John Milton

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
– Josh Billings

“Man can certainly keep on lying… but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel… but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.”
– Karl Barth

“I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, “The fit is momentary.”
– Ken Kesey

“The highest truth cannot be put into words.”
– Lao Tzu.

“The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one’s a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one’s theoretical models.”
– Lawrence M. Krauss

“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
– Lillian Hellman

“Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
– Lord Byron

“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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