Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
~ Zen Proverb ~
Whatever separates you from the Truth,
throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-
~ Yunus Emre ~
Everything you add to the truth
subtracts from the truth.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
Between whom there is hearty truth,
there is love.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller ~
The truth is always the strongest argument.
~Sophocles ~
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as judge in the field of truth
and knowledge is shipwrecked
by the laughter of the Gods.
~ Albert Einstein ~
Beware of the half truth.
You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
~ Source Unknown ~
A half truth is a whole lie.
~ Yiddish Proverb ~
The great seal of truth is simplicity.
~ Herman Boerhaave ~
We spend all our time looking for
some concept of Truth,
but Truth is what is left
when we drop all concepts.
~ David Merzel ~
What the imagination seizes
as beauty must be the truth.
~ John Keats ~
Truth is a fruit which should not be
plucked until it is ripe.
~ Voltaire ~
Truth, when not sought after,
rarely comes to light.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The man who fears no truth
has nothing to fear from lies.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
Learn to see things as they really are,
not as we imagine they are.
~ Vernon Howard ~
What is, is; and what ain’t, ain’t
~ Joseph E. Granville ~
Truth does not contradict truth.
~ Elizer Zvi Zweifel ~
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
~ Doug Gwyn ~
You can only find truth with logic
if you have already found truth without it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The pursuit of truth will set you free;
even if you never catch up with it.
~ Clarence Darrow ~
Only the hand that erases
can write the true thing.
~ Meister Eckhart ~
Always tell the truth,
it’s the easiest thing to remember.
~ David Mamet ~
Truth fears nothing but concealment.
~ Proverb ~
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
~ Martin Luther ~
No matter what you believe,
it doesn’t change the facts.
~ Al Kersha ~
Truth, after all,
wears a different face to everybody,
and it would be too tedious
to wait till all were agreed.
~ James Russell Lowell ~
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side,
but not everyone wishes
to be on the side of truth.
~ Richard Whately ~
One universe made up all that is;
and one God in it all,
and one principle of being,
and one law, the reason shared
by all thinking creatures,
and one truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~
Error always addresses
the passions and prejudices;
truth scorns such mean intrigue, and
only addresses the understanding
and the conscience.
~ Azel Backus ~
They deem him their worst enemy
who tells them the truth.
~ Plato ~
You never find yourself
until you face the truth.
~ Pearl Bailey ~
Telling someone the truth is a loving act.
~ Mal Pancoast ~
Between truth and the search for it,
I choose the second.
~ Bernard Berenson ~
Seek and you will find.
~ Bible ~
I will tell you the truth
as soon as I figure it out.
~ Wayne Birmingham ~
When you want to fool the world,
tell the truth.
~ Otto Von Bismarck ~
Truth can never be told
so as to be understood,
and not be believed.
~ William Blake ~
A few observation and
much reasoning lead to error;
many observations and
a little reasoning to truth.
~ Alexis Carrel ~
You never see what you want to see,
forever playing to the gallery.
~ Robertson Davies ~
Whenever you have truth
it must be given with love,
or the message and
the messenger will be rejected.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Say not, “I have found the truth,“
but rather, “I have found a truth.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
There’s no one thing that is true.
They’re all true.
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you mad.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
It is the fate of new truths
to begin as heresies and
end as superstitions.
~ Thomas H. Huxley ~
Receiving a new truth
is like adding a new sense.
~ Liebig ~
The more abstract the truth
you want to teach,
the more thoroughly
you must seduce
the senses to accept it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Truth is a thing immortal
and perpetual, and
it gives to us a beauty
that fades not away in time.
~ Frank Norris ~
A bare assertion is not
necessarily the naked truth.
~ George D. Prentice ~
The truth only irritates
those it enlightens,
but does not convert.
~ Pasquier Quesnel ~
Truth can be a dangerous thing.
It is quite patient and relentless.
~ R. Scott Richards ~
If you ever injected truth into politics
you would have no politics.
~ Will Rogers ~
There is no power on earth
more formidable than the truth.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
The fact that an opinion
has been widely held
is no evidence whatever that
it is not utterly absurd.
~ Utterly Russell ~
We must have strong minds,
ready to accept facts as they are.
~ Harry S. Truman ~
I never could tell a lie
that anybody would doubt,
nor a truth that anybody would believe.
~ Mark Twain ~
The truth may not lead you to
where you thought you were going,
but it will always lead you
somewhere better.
When ignored,
it will eventually show itself.
~ Source Unknown ~
The closeness of your relationships
is directly proportional to
the degree to which you have revealed
the truth about yourself.
It can be painful.
~ Source Unknown ~
To be persuasive, we must be believable.
To be believable, we must be credible.
To be credible, we must be truthful.
~ Hellmut Walters ~