truth

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 ~