Truth

35 quotes.

• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Attributed to the Buddha

• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.

  Anonymous

• Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.

  Anonymous

• Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

  Peter Bechmann

• Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is beter to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  H. L. Mencken

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

  Camillo di Cavour

• I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

  Harry S Truman

• If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

• In time of war the first casualty is truth.

  Boake Carter

• Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth -- in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words -- in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen R. Covey

• It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

• It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

  Jerome K. Jerome

• Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.

  Anonymous

• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity.

  Martin Luther King Jr.

• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

• My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.

  Anonymous

• Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

  Anonymous

• Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

  Anonymous

• Self respect can not be hunted. It can not be purchased. It is not for sale. It can never be fabricated out of public relations.

  Whitney Griswold

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  Anonymous

• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

  Anonymous

• The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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

• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

  Dr. Smiley Blanton

• To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

  Richard Baker

• Truth is always the death of what it is the truth of.

  Jacques Derrida

• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

  Mark Twain

• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

  Matthew Arnold

• When in doubt, tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

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