Truth Quotes And Sayings

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“Personally, I don’t give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.”
– Luigi Pirandello

“The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.”
– Marcel Proust

“Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.”
– Mark Akenside

“All generalizations, including this one, are false.”
– Mark Twain

“Always tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember what you said.”
– Mark Twain

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.”
– Mark Twain

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
– Matthew Arnold

“The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.”
– Max Born

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
– Maxim Gorky

“To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its “pure” form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.”
– Maxim Gorky

“Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.”
– Maxim Gorky

“The truth is “hate speech” only to those who have something to hide.”
– Michael Rivero

“To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.”
– Michael Servetus

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
– Niels Bohr

“Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses.”
– Norman Grubb

“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“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.”
– Peter Altenberg

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
– Rebecca West

“In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.”
– Rene Descartes-Rules

“Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.”
– Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laînnec

“Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.”
– Rev. Denny Brake

“The way of discovery still lies open to us in divine things if we have the moral courage and the desire to go to the fountain head of truth, instead of filling our vessels out of this doctor’s compendium… or be held spellbound by the shadow of a few great names.”
– Rev. J. B. Herd

“The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church.”
– Robert Farrar Capon

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
– Robert Frost

“Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

“Truth is within ourselves.”
– Robert Browning

“Truth never hurts the teller.”
– Robert Browning

“Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom orits seed. Having found the seed let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Whenever it may come, whithersoever it may blow, it will be able to germinate.”
– Romain Rolland

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