Top 25 Truth Quotes of 3144 - Page 39

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art, Truth, Lying

The Arts, May 1923

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

Truth, Lying, Race

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Truth, Self

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame de Stael

Peace, Truth, War

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

Joseph Hooker

War, Telling The Truth, Lost

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

Funny, Truth, Agreement

James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Queens, Truth, Heart

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

Trust, Truth, Ocean

Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

Funny, Truth, Work

Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Harry S. Truman

Strong, Truth, Acceptance

Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

H. P. Blavatsky

Change, Time, Truth

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

Inspirational, Nature, Truth

"What I Believe". The Forum Magazine, Issue 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

George C. Scott

Truth, Reality, Pleasant

"Fictional character: General "Buck" Turgidson". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

And 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 Nietzsche

Happiness, Laughter, Truth

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Freya Stark

Art, Untruthfulness, Advertising

Too much truth is uncouth.

Franklin P. Adams

Truth, Reality, Too Much

Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Funny, Witty, Truth

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life, Strong, Truth

Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

Truth, Business, Knowledge

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.121, Psychology Press

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Myth, Absolute Truth, Approach

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.273, World Wisdom, Inc

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

Alexandre Dumas

Truth, Fire, Water

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Adolf Loos

Two Sides, Sides, Truthful

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

Adi Da

Love, Truth, Doe

Adi Da Samraj, Da Avabhasa (1993). “The Incarnation of Love: "radical" Spiritual Wisdom and Practical Instruction on Self-transcending Love and Service in All Relationships”

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

William James

Truth, Ideas, Differences

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.77, Courier Corporation