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Saturday, 30 August 2008
Daily Quote:
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children." (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von - Age and Aging)

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Browse Quotations about Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
A hair divides what is false and true.
A half truth is a whole lie.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Ceremony 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.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
Great 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.
Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
I am always going to be true to myself.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.