Top 100 To Truth Quotes
#1. To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#2. The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti Smith
#4. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Who has magnificent self-confidence
And fears nothing that exists?
The man who has attained to truth
And lives free of error.
Dalai Lama
#7. Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank
#8. All things on earth have their price, and for truth we pay the dearest. We barter it for love and sympathy. The road to honour is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your heart.
Olive Schreiner
#9. Great fiction tells unknown truths. Great film goes further. Great film improves Truth. After all, what Truth ever made $40 million in its first weekend of wide release? What Truth sold in forty foreign territories in six hours? Who's lining up to see a sequel to Truth?
Jess Walter
#10. Courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one's own consciousness.
Ayn Rand
#11. Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#12. Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
Tom Robbins
#13. The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.
Justin Vernon
#14. As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
Madeleine L'Engle
#15. The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
Raheel Farooq
#17. If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.
Saadi
#18. Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.
Alder
#19. To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.
Bayard Taylor
#20. So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#21. If the truth scares you, know that it is your guilty conscience reacting to Truth.
Billy Graham
#22. Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.
Rachel Held Evans
#23. Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.
Idries Shah
#24. It is an important part of our life's experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#25. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.
J.G. Ballard
#26. Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.
Pope Francis
#27. The power to bind and loose to Truth is given:
The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven,
The power, which in a sense belongs to none,
Thus understood belongs to every one.
Abraham Coles
#28. All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
Pete Townshend
#29. TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
Joseph Joubert
#30. Analysis isn't pliers, and truth is not teeth: you can't pull it out by force. A mouth stays closes as long as it wants to. Truth is told when it tells itself.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#31. Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
#32. The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
Robert Baldwin Ross
#33. The first duty of an Author is
I conceive
a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.
Charlotte Bronte
Juliet Barker
#35. It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
Anthony De Mello
#37. Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.
Randy Alcorn
#38. No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
Anthony Trollope
#39. From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.
E. M. Broner
#40. On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
Elias Canetti
#43. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.
Louise Brooks
#46. Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.
Peter Kreeft
#47. The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
#48. As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
Alison Croggon
#49. The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Carol Gilligan
#50. We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
W. Somerset Maugham
#52. No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.
James E. Talmage
#53. Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
Ben Jonson
#54. You know what sucks about love? That it's so tied to truth.
John Green
#55. To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
A.W. Tozer
#56. Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#57. Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.
James G. Frazer
#59. There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
Angelina Grimke
#61. There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.
Karl Pearson
#62. One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
Bill Vaughan
#63. No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.
Jason Evert
#66. Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
Satish Kumar
#67. Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#68. He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.
Khalil Gibran
#69. Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.
Osho
#70. You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds
Dag Hammarskjold
#71. When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.
Michael Eisen
#72. Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.
Francis Quarles
#73. I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.
H. P. Blavatsky
#75. From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.
Shawn Amos
#76. I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice.
Maulana Karenga
#77. A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.
Pope Francis
#78. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts
#79. Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.
Stephen Fry
#80. Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#81. Unless the Gardener was visiting you, darkness in the Garden was the closest we got to truth.
Dot Hutchison
#82. On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. The camera is an extension of yourself ... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
Cornell Capa
#84. Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
James Russell Lowell
#85. Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
William Penn
#86. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
#87. [ ... ] suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth
Blake Crouch
#88. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#90. Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou
#91. The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances - of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - BUDDHA
Jacqueline Novogratz
#93. It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.
Ravi Zacharias
#94. On the way to truth, you can never see the priest, the imam or the pious! They are lost; they wander on the dark roads of ignorance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.
Confucius
#99. Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.
Suzy Kassem
#100. FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
Ambrose Bierce
