To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George OrwellThe further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George OrwellPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellIn a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George OrwellThe truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiOne 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 AureliusA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles SpurgeonThe words of truth are simple.
AeschylusI believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma GandhiIf you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark TwainWhen you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
Stephen KendrickNever tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark TwainA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark TwainHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinIf she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob MarleyTruth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma GandhiIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
George Bernard ShawThe truth is lived, not taught.
Herman HesseI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyFacts are many but the truth is one.
Rabindranath TagoreThe pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildeIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Jane AustenWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.
Mahatma GandhiLove is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath TagoreThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught.
Herman HesseThe truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
C. S. LewisPiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleThis above all, to thine own self be true.
William ShakespeareI know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad AliWhat draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C. S. LewisIf it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus AureliusThe false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Rabindranath TagoreThe object of the superior man is truth.
ConfuciusI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.
John KeatsEvery truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner and it is for you to find the other three.
ConfuciusAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiI have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma GandhiThose who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.
ConfuciusTruth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark TwainBeauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath TagoreFor truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord ByronOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
ConfuciusWe should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl JungPerhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James MadisonIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouHumility is truth.
Desiderius ErasmusA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainYou can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.
Sai BabaExaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil GibranAll truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheDoubt indulged and cherished is in danger of becoming denial, but if honest and bent on thorough investigation it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose BierceFor Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going, unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouGood ideas, good conduct and adherence to Truth should result from our education. Only those who acquire these qualities can be called truly educated.
Sai BabaTell the children the truth.
Bob MarleyReason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeCertainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.
Francis BaconIt is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.
Samuel JohnsonAnd we should consider every day lost, on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich NietzscheThe true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
AristotleIt's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark TwainEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply, as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty, but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerDefending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de BeauvoirIn the sky there is no distinction of east and west, people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
BuddhaTruth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement StoneAnother possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave BarryBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain you gain all, if you lose you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that He exists.
Blaise PascalSincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
ConfuciusMyths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel AdamsIrony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason CooleyEvery mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart, and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil GibranThe least deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
AristotleThe water in a vessel is sparkling, the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear, the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath TagoreConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph AddisonThe truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.
EminemSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar WildeMy religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Mahatma GandhiIf I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonSome counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSo near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEducation must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion, and one Reason.
Sai BabaAll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth, come only from the senses.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow, that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil GibranTruths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emile M. CioranI am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnTruth is so hard to tell it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis BaconWe should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich NietzscheMy task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.
Sai BabaWhat is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation, if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mahatma GandhiThree things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
BuddhaAll that one gains by falsehood is not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
AristotleA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOnce to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell LowellArt is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. AdornoLiars, when they speak the truth, are not believed.
AristotleEven if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma GandhiOne may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich NietzscheTechnology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
Niels BohrTo be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath TagoreTruth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiRivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths
Muhammad AliJokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
Muhammad AliSometimes people will stumble over the truth. But then they get up and continue to run like nothing has happened.
Winston ChurchillTruth is the light, so you never give up the fight.
Bob MarleyTruth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
MenciusDoubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move his aides, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
William ShakespeareSeldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane AustenForce is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims, the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is nobody really possesses it.
Simone WeilIf indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Kahlil GibranGod made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil GibranHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusThe opposite of every truth is just as true.
Herman HesseFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganOnly on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue and abiding love.
George Bernard ShawSometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
Vivien LeighAll the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma GandhiPlato is dear to me but dearer still is truth.
AristotleYet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfThe simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave BarryOf course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret ThatcherWhat is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
BuddhaSex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But it's usually too battered with rules to be heard and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim MorrisonThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life, as the simple truth.
Charles DickensIt is man that makes truth great. not truth that makes man great.
ConfuciusFor a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
George OrwellHe that takes truth for his guide and duty for his end may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Blaise PascalIn a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William ShakespeareHowever greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleTruth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Kahlil GibranThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyTruth has to persist unaffected in the past, present and future. That, which is absent in two states, how can it be true?
Sai BabaTruth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal, one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor W. AdornoThe Divine pervades everything in the Universe. This may not be understood by everyone. Some may not agree that the Divine is Omnipresent. But whether they accept this fact or not the truth is evidence of the presence of God can be found wherever one turns.
Sai BabaI have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. ThompsonI put forward formless and unresolved notions as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel de MontaigneFame - a few words upon a tombstone and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell BoveeEnlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology, but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight, and focused attention.
Deepak ChopraTime is precious but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin DisraeliWords are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us, nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich NietzscheMorality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma GandhiWe should not be so taken up in the search for truth as to neglect the needful duties of active life, for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels BohrTo give a satisfactory decision as to the truth, it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsWhat is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.
Sai BabaHeresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. WellsLight is the symbol of truth.
James Russell LowellFreedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas HuxleyThe Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry MillerTo thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William ShakespeareThe truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuThe price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
Donald RumsfeldMan's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius ErasmusEverything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective not the truth.
Marcus AureliusEach one must become aware that he is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. It is reprehensible to stick for one's whole life-time to the narrow path of selfishness envy and greed.
Sai BabaTruth lies within a little and certain compass but error is immense.
William BlakeIf you shut up truth and bury it underground it will but grow.
Emile ZolaA lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord TennysonIn matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is nine times out of ten a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWomen are the repositories of Truth and Culture.
Sai BabaCeremony leads her bigots forth prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths on which eternal things depend can hardly find a single friend.
William CowperHow often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth?
Arthur Conan DoyleThere is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
Lord ByronEnhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
OvidHow dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SophoclesObama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
Donald TrumpSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger, give if thou art asked for little, by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
ConfuciusTruth is the daughter of time not of authority
Francis BaconWhat does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry MillerTruth is one, there cannot be two. For two can only be One occurring twice.
Sai BabaCompetence like truth beauty and contact lenses is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. PeterIf truth is beauty how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily TomlinIf an eloquent speaker speak not the truth is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas CarlyleIf names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.
ConfuciusThe truth is hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard ShawTruth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais NinJustice is the truth in action.
Joseph JoubertBut such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineIt is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. MenckenAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them.
Galileo GalileiRebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran'Men have forgotten this truth' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.'
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyOne must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise PascalBut what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence, the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord ByronTo rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor HugoOne can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry MillerThe greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
William JamesThe absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert CamusI cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
Steve MartinExperience has shown and a true philosophy will always show that a vast perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan PoeLive truth instead of professing it.
Elbert HubbardScience has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Thomas HuxleyOn the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich NietzscheForgiveness is Truth itself it is Righteousness it is the Veda. It is the Supreme virtue in this world. Hence all people should develop the quality of forgiveness.
Sai BabaThe only way into truth is through one's own annihilation, through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone WeilAdvertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas JeffersonWe know the truth not only by the reason but also by the heart.
Blaise PascalEvery thing possible to be believed is an image of truth.
William BlakeHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonIn everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonBut if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
William ShatnerPeople imagine that Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth
Winston ChurchillThere are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich NietzscheGreat is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous HuxleyContradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalWine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye, That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler YeatsKnowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.
Carl JungNo pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Francis BaconA lot of truth is said in jest.
EminemWhen Love is associated with our thoughts it manifests itself as Truth.
Sai BabaIt is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.
Francis BaconYou know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset MaughamA truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William BlakeI think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler YeatsOne truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong it creates world history. If it is weak it suffers world history.
Albert SchweitzerAlways speak the truth think before you speak and write it down afterwards.
Lewis CarrollThe texts of India insist on the value of actual practice and the need to confirm the truths by experiencing their impact.
Sai BabaNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalIf you doubt any of these great truths you are to suffer and grieve.
Sai BabaThus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices but forgetting self you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.
James AllenAny fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler