Quotes

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
-Sarah McLachlan

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
-Stopford Brooke

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.
-French Proverb

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
-James A. Garfield

Truth is a great flirt.
-Franz Liszt

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
-William James

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
-Corliss Lamont

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
-John Locke

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-Stephen King

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
-Simone de Beauvoir

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
-Adrienne Rich

There is no truth. There is only perception.
-Gustave Flaubert

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

When I tell any 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

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
-Adlai E. Stevenson

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and blows them out.
-Lizette W. Reese

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
-William James

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-Aldous Huxley

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
-Adlai E. Stevenson

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-George Bernard Shaw

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right, a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-Albert Einstein

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
-George Bernard Shaw

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
-George Sarton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
-Charles Caleb Colton

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.
-Felix Adler

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
-Pearl S. Buck

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
-Attributed to James A. Garfield

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
-Alexander Jablokov

By doubting we come at truth.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them.
-Galileo Galilei

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
-Lillian Hellman

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-Blaise Pascal

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
-Alfred Adler

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