Truth Quotes

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. (William Blake, 1757-1827)

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility. (Charles C. Colton, 1780-1832)

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. (Frank Herbert, 1920-1986)

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894)

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. (Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963)

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

If the truth hurts most of us so badly that we don't want it told, it hurts even more grievously those who dare to tell it. It is a two-edged sword, often deadly dangerous to the user. (Judge Ben Lindsey, 1869-1943)

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. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. (William Penn, 1644-1718)

If there were only one single truth, it would not be possible to paint a hundred pictures of the same subject. (Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973)

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling falsehoods about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson, 1900-1965)

It takes two to speak the truth; one to speak, and another to hear (Henry D. Thoreau, 1817-1862)

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through, it will blow up everything in its way. (Emile Zola, 1840-1902)

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