Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"All religions have been made by men"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Don't be afraid to see what you see"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality, and a very important one to society"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"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 Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"What is true belongs to me!"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Truth never damages a cause that is just"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both, on as vast a scale as I could"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Don't be "consistent", but be simple true"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"A new untruth is better than an old truth"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Silence is the mother of truth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

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