Truth Quotes And Sayings

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“A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.”
– Sir Thomas Browne

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth!”
– Sophocles

“A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
– Stephen King

“If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.”
– Stopford Brooke

“Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.”
– Sydney J. Harris

“Truth — there’s no such thing.”
– Tankred Dorst

“Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.”
– Theodore Parker

“A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.”
– Thomas Brooks

“The thought that provokes thought is much more valuable than the thought that is only an echo of an accepted truth.”
– Thomas W. Hanford

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Thoreau

“The folks who know the truth aren’t talking…. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!”
– Tom Waits

“There is truth and falsehood in a comma.”
– Tom Stoppard

“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
– Tryon Edwards

“Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.”
– Wilhelm Stekel

“Truth never lost ground by enquiry.”
– William Penn

“A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
– William Blake

“And diff’ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.”
– William Cowper

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
– William Cullen Bryant

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

“Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it’s embarrassing to meet her on the street.”
– Wolfgang Borchert

“Truth will only make you unpopular.”
– Wolfgang Borchert

“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.”
– Woody Allen

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