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| God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~ Aldous Huxley |
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But even so, wise dogs don’t bark.
Only mongrels make it hard
For the milkman to come up the yard.
~ Christopher Morley, |
| It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson, |
| I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart. ~ Peter Altenberg |
| The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~ William James |
| Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found. ~ W. MacNeile Dixon |
| There is no god higher than truth. ~ Mahatma Gandhi |
| Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~ Rebecca West |
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| It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. ~ Werner Heisenberg, |
| Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| 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 |
| Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. ~ Shoseki |
| Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. ~ Robert Brault |
| There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~ Ramana Maharshi |
Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split,
And pieces that don’t fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit.
~ Neil Peart |
| Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. ~ Charles Caleb Colton |
| It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~ Oscar Wilde |
| If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~ Dogen |
| People always think something’s all true. ~ J.D. Salinger |
| Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, |
| Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~ Leo Tolstoy |
| Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine |
| Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Truth is a great flirt. ~ Franz Liszt |
| I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reëstablish the truth. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ~ Denis Diderot |
| All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~ George Bernard Shaw, |