1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley

Truth is what works.
William James

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous Huxley

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Epictetus

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. Truman

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Karl Von Clausewitz