Truth Quotes - Page 32

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Real

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Jobs, Cost, Want

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Attitude, Lying, Knowing Nothing

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Inspiration, Follow Your Dreams

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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  A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.

  Henri Poincare

  Men, Giving, Today

  1904 TheValue of Science.

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• Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

  William Penn

  Enquiry, Lost

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.852

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• The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Science, Men, Blood

  1930 The Revolt of theMasses.

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• There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Educational, Atheism, Doe

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• Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Mind, Done, Truth Is

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• But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

  John Milton

  Integrity, Men, His Love

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.489

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• But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking.

  Margery Sharp

  Way, Commodity, Dangerous

  Margery Sharp (2016). “Britannia Mews: A Novel”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fine, Ifs

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Men, Practice

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.409

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• He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Honesty, Teaching, Air

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• Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.

  Doc Childre

  Stress, Technology, Discovery

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• Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Ignorance

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• To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honesty, Unbelievable

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

  George Gissing

  Honesty, Soul, Touching

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.148, The Floating Press

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• A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, Hair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.444, Harvard University Press

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• When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Speak, About Yourself

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• Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Lying, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

  John Wycliffe

  Motivational, Honesty, Believe

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