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Truth Quotes
"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."
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"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration."
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"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen."
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"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
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"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
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"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
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"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
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"The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously."
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"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across."
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"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
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"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
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"We seek the truth and will endure the consequences."
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"Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy."
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"As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook."
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"It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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