Truth Quotes

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

Peter Mere Latham

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.

Toba Beta

It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

George Savile

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

Margaret Dilloway

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

Toba Beta

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

Carrie Vaughn

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Nikolai Gogol

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Edward Tufte

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

John Lennon

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

John Charles Polanyi

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

Leigh Steinberg

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Mason Cooley

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

George Berkeley

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

S.N. Goenka

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

Nathalia Crane

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

Artemus Ward (writer)

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Max Brooks

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.

Peter Mere Latham