Quotations on Truth

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John 8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

 

John 18:37  To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world,  that I should bear witness unto the truth.

 

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.  - Ruth McKenney
 

"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light".  Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

George Orwell:

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

 

In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.

 

 

Daniel Patrick Moynihan:

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.

 

Emily Dickinson:

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.

 

Josh Billings:

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Pearl S. Buck:

 

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

 

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
- - - William Cullen Bryant

 

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
- - - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "The Disowned" 1828

 

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- - - Winston Churchill

 

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
- - - Jean de La Bruyere

 

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- - - Mohandas K. Gandhi "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

 

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom--they are the pillars of society.
- - - Henrik Ibsen

 

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
- - - Thomas Jefferson

 

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
- - - Ruth McKenney

 

It 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. Mencken

 

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- - - George Orwell

 

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
- - - Charles Peguy

 

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- - - Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

 

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- - - Arthur Schopenhauer

 

The truth is always the strongest argument.
- - - Sophocles

 

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- - - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- - - Mark Twain

 

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
- - - Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

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