Quotes about truth

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

Once you have heard the truth, all that remains tastes like cheap whisky.

Anonymous

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

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

Winston Churchill

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Jean Baudrillard

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Antonio Gramsci

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth will out.

English Proverb

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony de Mello

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Georg Brandes

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

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

Winston Churchill

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth.

Into the Wild

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

To attempt seeing truth without knowing falsehood. It is the attempt to see the light without knowing the darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Frank Herbert

It was not a lie. I was merely being economical with the truth.

Robert Armstrong

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Patrick Murray

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Boris Pasternak

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.

Helena Cassadine

Whoever turns away from truth perishes.

Imam Ali

With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact.

Hans Kasper

Error is always more busy than truth.

Hosea Ballou