It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Samuel Ichiye HayakawaOne 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.
AeschylusWhen you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth.
Arthur Conan DoyleI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyThe pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildePiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleIf it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus AureliusAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiA writer's job is to tell the truth.
Andy RooneyI 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 GandhiFor 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 JungIt's much easier for me to make major life multi-million dollar decisions than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah WinfreyHumility is truth.
Desiderius ErasmusAll truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheCertainly 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 BaconThe true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
AristotleEverything 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.
BuddhaSincerity 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 EmersonThe 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 TagoreA 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.
EminemA taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusNon-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma GandhiGod is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiThe pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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 CiceroTruths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emile M. CioranTruth 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 NietzscheWhat 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. ChestertonDispassionate objectivity is itself a passion for the real and for the truth.
Abraham MaslowOnce 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 is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark TwainRivers, 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 ChurchillForce 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 WeilHow can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert CamusFor 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 LeighYet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfOf course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Margaret ThatcherFor 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 ShakespeareThe 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.
AristotleBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da VinciTruth 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. AdornoI 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 BoveeWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark TwainEnlightened 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 ChopraWords are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us, nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich NietzschePERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Sai BabaWe 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.
AristotleDogs may bark and jackals howl, but Truth moves Majestically forward.
Sai BabaIt is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat 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 LowellThe 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 TzuMan'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 ZolaSpeak with Love and it becomes Truth.
Sai BabaA 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 BabaHow 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 ByronSpeak 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 BabaIf 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 ShawRichard Nixon is a no good lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and if he ever caught himself telling the truth he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. TrumanFor if a good speaker never so eloquent does not see into the fact and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas CarlyleTruth 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 JoubertThe values a man must cherish as his life-breath are Truth Righteousness Peace Love and Non violence.
Sai BabaIt 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 GalileiTruth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson'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-ExuperyThe truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
Ayn RandOne 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 PascalAbove all be conscious of the Truth That you and He are bound By Supreme Love.
Sai BabaGod is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity a boat. In this ocean of life take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.
Sai BabaTo 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 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 MartinLive truth instead of professing it.
Elbert HubbardOn 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 BlakeIn everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe truth is I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia WoolfI 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 NewtonPeople 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 NietzscheContradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalNo 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 BaconA truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William BlakeAlways 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 PascalThus 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 ButlerI never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. TrumanThe Bible may be the truth but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel ButlerWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus