| Citat |
Sagt av |
| "Efter er, min herre:" sade sanningen och höll upp dörren för kärleken till nästan. | C. J. Klauman |
| Alla kloka människor vet att sanningen inte är en huvudrätt utan en krydda. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Att säga sanningen har många fördelar. Den första är att människor förbluffat iakttar hur naturligt man ljuger. | Jean Dutourd |
| Av barn och fyllos får man höra sanningen | Norsk Ordtak |
| Bara det sanna är vackert. | Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) |
| Berätta aldrig sanningen till folk som inte har gjort sig förtjänt av den. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Bland det bästa med att säga sanningen, är att man inte behöver komma ihåg vad man sade. | Ukjent |
| De älskar sanningen när den avslöjar sig och hatar den när den avslöjar dem. | Aurelius Augustinus (354-430) |
| Den nakna sanningen fängslar inte människorna hälften så mycket som lätt beslöjade halvsanningar. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| Den som alltid säger sanningen blir ingen minneskonstnär. | Joachim Ringelnatz |
| Den som inte säger sanningen om sig själv kan inte säga den om andra. | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| Den som säger sanningen, syndar inte, men han skapar besvär | Spansk Ordtak |
| Den som vill säga sanningen måste kunna fabulera. | Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984) |
| Det beklagliga med sanningen är att lögnen ibland verkar mer sannfärdig. | Carl Erik Soya (1896-1983) |
| Det finns folk som ljuger sig in i sin sannings fanatism. | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| Det finns många som tar hundradelssanningar för hela sanningen. | Carl Erik Soya (1896-1983) |
| Det finns sanningar men ingen sanning. Jag kan mycket väl hävda två helt olika saker och ha rätt i båda fallen. | Robert Musil (1880-1942) |
| Det finns sanningar som man kan ta gift på. | Heinrich Nüsse |
| Det han sade var inte sant, men det var alldeles riktigt. | Gustaf Lindborg (1875-1927) |
| Det lönar sig inte att vara pryd om man vill möta sanningen, för den går ju naken. | Stina Aronson |
| Det är omöjligt att bära ut sanningens fackla i ett människomyller utan att råka sveda skägget på någon. | Francois de Chateaubriand |
| Det är svårt att säga sanningen till sig själv, om man nu vet den. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Dålig smak är att säga sanningen för tidigt. | Mel Brooks (1926-) |
| En ärlig människa säger sanningen, en taktlös människa säger hela sanningen | Ukjent |
| Ibland snavar människorna över en sanning, men de flesta reser sig och skyndar vidare som om ingenting hade hänt. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Ingen gör livet så svårt för sig som den som oavbrutet föredrar en behaglig sanning. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Ingen vet sanningen om sanningen. Det är faktiskt sanning. | Ib Eilenberg |
| Jag känner flera sorters sanning: den enkla, den rena och den rena och rama. | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| Jag säger sanningen, det är den bästa kvickheten i världen. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Jag vet aldrig hur mycket av det jag säger som är sant. | Bette Midler (1945-) |
| Kasta gärna lättsinniga paradoxer omkring dig, men ta på skottsäker väst innan du säger en sanning som ligger dig om hjärtat. | Mikal Rode |
| Kom ihåg att du inte ska förråda sanningen. Du ska avslöja den. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Man borde hålla fram sanningen för de andra som en rock de kan ta på sig, inte som ett vått omslag om huvudet. | Max Frisch (1911-1991) |
| Man brukar stöta på sanningen först när den inte längre är intressant. | Hans Arndt |
| Man bör säga sanningen, men allt som är sant bör inte sägas. | Kristina Augusta (1626-1689) |
| Många sanningar har utgått från ett misstag. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Normalt lever en sanning högst tjugo år. | Polsk Ordtak |
| När kvinnan skäller ut, kommer det sanna fram | Gresk Ordtak |
| När man ska förkunna en ny sanning skadar det inte att ha dålig diktion. | Wieslaw Brudzinski |
| När människor vill vara riktigt otrevliga begagnar de sig gärna av sanningen. | Carl Cramer |
| När orden står på huvudet gör de något för sanningens blodomlopp. | Hellmut Walters |
| När sanningen är för svag för att försvara sig måste den övergå till angrepp. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| När vi närmar oss sanningen fjärmar vi oss från verkligheten. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Obehagliga sanningar är alltid bättre än behagliga illusioner. | Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) |
| Om det inte är sant, så är det i alla fall bra påhittat. | Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) |
| Om en sensation också är en sanning är den sannerligen en sensation. | Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984) |
| Sanningar blir dogmer så fort man börjar tvivla på dem. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Sanningen blir trodd, bara den förstås. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Sanningen ersätts av förträngning, men förträngning är ett annat ord för lögn. | Jevgenij Jevtusjenko (1933-) |
| Sanningen hålls bakom lås och bom som den dyrbaraste skatt av den som sätter minst värde på den. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Sanningen marscherar och inget kan stoppa den. | Émile Zola (1840-1902) |
| Sanningen och olja flyter alltid ovanpå | Engelsk Ordtak |
| Sanningen väntar tålmodigt på den som kommer förbi | Herschbach |
| Sanningen är det dyrbaraste vi äger. Låt oss spara på den. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Sanningen är en frukt som inte bör plockas innan den är mogen. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Sanningen är en skrämmande älskarinna: man äger den aldrig helt. | Hermann Bahr (1863-1934) |
| Sanningen är naken men den hittar många modeskapare. | Hans Arndt |
| Sanningen är som solen. Du kan stänga den ute ett tag, men den kommer inte att gå sin väg. | Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
| Sanningen är svår att höra. Därför används lögnen mer. | Helle Horstkamp |
| Sanningen är svår att uppfatta. Man ska faktiskt viska för att bli hörd. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Sanningen är till för skomakare och skrädddare. Vår Herre, som känner till sanningen i förväg, har däremot en svaghet för maskerad. | Karen Blixen (1885-1962) |
| sanningen är utan tvivel vacker, men det är även lögnen | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Sanningskärlek är det sällsyntaste av alla amorösa band. | Alfred Polgar (1875-1955) |
| Somliga människor älskar sanningen därför att de inte har någon anledning att ljuga. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Så oanständigt: den nakna sanningen. Så anständigt: den rena lögnen. | Ruth Greiber |
| Vad skall vårt hjärta med sanningen, det går i alla fall sina egna vägar, ensamt famlande efter det obegripliga | Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) |
| Vad som är sanning i ett land är lögn i ett annat | Ludvig Holberg |
| Var försiktig med halvsanningar, du kan ta tag i fel hälft. | Ukjent |
| Var modig! Om du säger sanningen kommer du inte att snubbla! | Sofokles |
| Även om du ensam är en minoritet, är sanning sanning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Även om vår tid har vant sig vid att betrakta det nakna som något naturligt får de flesta människor en chock när de konfronteras med den nakna sanningen. | Børge Madsen |
| Akkurat som det sjelden gis komplementer som er helt fri for løgn, hører man sjelden grovheter som er uten en snev av sannhet | G.E. Lessing |
| Han skal se godt som sant skal si. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Et sant ord er ikke frekt. | Kamerun Ordtak |
| Hvis sandheden er hvid og løgnen er sort, vil gråt altid være modefarve. | O Thygesen Damm |
| It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. | A. A. Hodge (1823-1886) |
| In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves | Abraham J. Heschel |
| They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard | Alexander Cockburn |
| The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril | Alfred Loisy |
| When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others. | Andre P. Brink |
| The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie | Ann Landers (1918-2002) |
| Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance | Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-) |
| 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 |
| On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience | Anthony Quinn (1915-) |
| When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey | Arab Proverb |
| When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| Truth may walk through the world unarmed | Bedouin Proverb |
| The truth is that men are tired of liberty. | Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) |
| If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. | Billy Wilder (1906-2002) |
| The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it | Cecil Woodham Smith |
| If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you | Charles Gordon (1833-1885) |
| He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers | Charles Pierre Péguy (1873-1914) |
| There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. | Charles Pierce (1926-1999) |
| The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands | Charles Simmons |
| Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. | Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) |
| The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper. | Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) |
| Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember | David Mamet (1947-) |
| The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. | Demi Moore (1962-) |
| The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. | Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) |
| Truth is not determined by majority vote. | Doug Gwyn |
| It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully | Doug Vargas |
| Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. | Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) |
| Truth is a great flirt. | Franz Liszt (1811-) |
| We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective | François R. Chateaubriand |
| The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. | Frederick The Great |
| The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. | Frederick The Great |
| Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. | Georges Braque (1882-1963) |
| I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. | George Bataille (1897-1962) |
| The well of true wit is truth itself | George Meredith (1828-1909) |
| If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth | Gerald Vann |
| Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth | Gertrude Franklin Atherton |
| I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms | Seingalt Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de (1725-1798) |
| It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. | Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) |
| The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. | Henry George Bohn (1796-1884) |
| Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries | Henry Wotton, Sr. (1568-1639) |
| Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. | Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) |
| Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence. | James Cone |
| It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own | James Otis |
| Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1926-) |
| The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising. | Jef I. Richards |
| An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all | Jimmy Johnson (1943-) |
| What is Truth? Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I would keep the Truth and turn aside from God | Johannes Eckhard |
| Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers | John Churton Collins |
| Official truths are often powerful illusions | John Pilger (1939-) |
| I believe that in the end truth will conquer | John Wycliffe |
| The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern. | Joseph Alsop (1910-) |
| There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe | Joshua Willis Alexander |
| Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. | Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) |
| What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth. | Linda Ellinor |
| Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it. | Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) |
| Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Truth is immortal; error is mortal | Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) |
| It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live | Maximilien Francois Robespierre (1758-1794) |
| The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world | Max Born (1882-1970) |
| Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story | Max Ehrman |
| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it | Max Planck (1858-1947) |
| There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion | Michael J. Tucker |
| Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being | Morris Joseph |
| Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. | Nadine Gordimer (1923-) |
| No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier | Nicholas I |
| The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. | Niels Bohr (1885-1962) |
| We don't need to fabricate anything because the truth will make you weep. | Patricia L. Walsh |
| A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it. | Paula Fox (1923-) |
| You never find yourself until you face the truth | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) |
| Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. | Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) |
| Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation. | Rene Daumal |
| This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth | Ring Lardner (1885-1933) |
| Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. | Robert Brault |
| Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. | Robert M. Pirsig |
| In wine there is truth | Roman Proverb |
| If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America | Ron Dellums |
| I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose. | S. I. Hayakawa |
| The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. | Samuel H. Hammond |
| The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. | Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) |
| The first reaction to truth is hatred | Tertullian (155-220) |
| The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. | Travis Walton |
| Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. | Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) |
| In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. | Walter Cronkite (1916-) |
| Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. | William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) |
| Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting | William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) |
| Never assume the obvious is true. | William Safire (1929-) |
| A half-truth is a whole lie | Yiddish Proverb |
| No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre. | A. A. Hodge (1823-1886) |
| If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run. | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either | Aesop |
| If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it ! | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| The color of truth is gray | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. | Ansel Adams (1902-1984) |
| Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh | Austin O'Malley |
| The truth needs so little rehearsal. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. | Bob Dylan (1941-) |
| A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots | Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
| The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The truth is more important than the facts. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Women should be obscene and not heard. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth | Irish Sayings |
| Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. | Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) |
| There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| Truth is child of Time | John Ford (1895-1973) |
| In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking | John Lubbock, Sr. |
| Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| Truth disappears with the telling of it | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth | Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) |
| The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| Truth is on the side of the oppressed | Malcolm X (1925-1965) |
| We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| By doubting we come at truth. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att | Mary Worley Montagu |
| There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering | Minna Antrim (1861-1950) |
| True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd | Niels Bohr (1885-1962) |
| The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. | Niels Bohr (1885-1962) |
| Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Truth is a tendency. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth | Richard Whately (1787-1863) |
| The love of truth lies at the root of much humor | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Power is not sufficient evidence of truth | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. | Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) |
| Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished | Titus Livy |
| From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. | W. Clement Stone (1902-2002) |
| A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. | Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) |
| For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. | Ivan Panin |
| Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| You never find yourself until you face the truth | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| The search for truth is more precious than its possession. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember | David Mamet (1947-) |
| Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie | Ann Landers (1918-2002) |
| It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world | Max Born (1882-1970) |
| 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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-) |
| There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is just the sun in the sky. And the hope of a summer to come with the meaning of love. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Never assume the obvious is true. | William Safire (1929-) |
| Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Truth is generally the best vindication against slander | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| He never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. | Andy Rooney (1919-) |
| Beware: some liers tell the truth | Arab Proverb |
| How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| The farther you enter the truth, the deeper it is. | Bankei Zenji |
| The truth needs so little rehearsal. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| Silence is the mother of truth. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| A lie stands on one leg, truth on two | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Half a truth is often a great lie. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward | Bible |
| And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. (Judges 9:15) | Bible |
| I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it | Bible |
| Buy the truth, and do not sell it | Bible |
| He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering. | Byron Katie |
| We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. | Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) |
| It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. | Diana Ossana |
| It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| A lot of truth is said in jest. | Eminem (1972-) |
| Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. | Erica Jong (1942-) |
| The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement | George Bancroft (1800-1891) |
| All great truths begin as blasphemies. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth | Gertrude Franklin Atherton |
| Only the truth is revolutionary. | Graffiti |
| The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact. | Hans Kasper |
| The truth of the matter is that facts seldom prove the truth. Why? Because truth is inly found in a journey. | Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt |
| Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time! | Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt |
| The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie. | Harrison Ford (1942-) |
| One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Exactitude is not truth. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. | Henry George Bohn (1796-1884) |
| It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Whatever your advice, make it brief | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. | Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) |
| Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth | Irish Sayings |
| The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin. | Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) |
| Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Truth is no road to fortune | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it | Jean Rostand (1894-1977) |
| Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1926-) |
| While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising. | Jef I. Richards |
| First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Nothing is true, but that which is simple. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. | Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) |
| The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| When will reality come closer to the truth? | Loesje (1983-) |
| Truth is always strange | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth | Luis Munoz-Marin (1898-) |
| The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| When in doubt, tell the truth. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| 'Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.' | Michael Jackson (1958-) |
| How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar? | Michael Josephson |
| You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. | Michael Levy |
| I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Truth alone wounds. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| A new untruth is better than an old truth. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Don't be "consistent" but be simple true. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| The truth is rarely pure and never simple. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| "Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. | Paul Claudel (1868-) |
| And so you see I have come to doubt ~~ All that I once held as true ~~ I stand alone without beliefs ~~ The only truth I know is you | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. | Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) |
| And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. | Proverb |
| Death cancels everything but truth | Proverb |
| The truth is no slander | Proverb |
| There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| I don't wish her any ill will. I think it's very hard for everyone to participate in the illusion she presents as her truth | Rosie O'Donnell (1962-) |
| A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Reason and truth will prevail at last | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Truth allows no choice | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true. | Scott Allen (1948-) |
| The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| “As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. It’s such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, ‘Well, if this is a truth that I know about that’s not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?’” | Serj Tankian |
| It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support. | Stephen Colbert (1964-) |
| Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| Truth might be unattainable, but honesty is not. | Stephen Watson |
| .. almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. | Steve Jobs (1955-2011) |
| The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. | Stuart Taylor |
| The velvet dodges of the hypocrit | Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) |
| Nowadays truth is the greatest news | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| If the truth shall have made thee free, thou shalt not care for the vain words of men | Thomas Kempis |
| In the holy Scriptures, truth is to be looked for rather than fair phrases | Thomas Kempis |
| Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood | Tryon Edwards |
| When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy. | Vanna Bonta |
| Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. | Vanna Bonta |
| It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. | Werner Herzog (1942-) |
| Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger | William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) |
| Principle is a passion for truth | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons | William James (1842-1910) |
| As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors. | William James (1842-1910) |
| Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| This above all; to thine own self be true. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| False face must hide what the false heart doth know. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Å si sannheten er en borgerlig fordom. | Vladimir Iljitsj Lenin (1870-1924) |
| Alle fortiede sannheter blir giftige. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Alt i verden kan etterlignes, unntagen sannheten. For imitert sannhet er ikke lenger sannhet. | Rabbi Menahem Mendel |
| Annonsene inneholder de eneste sannheter man kan stole på i en avis. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| De fleste sannheter er så nakne at folk synes synd på dem og prøver å dekke dem til, iallfall litt | H. Walters |
| De sannheter som man må si med stor spøkefullhet rommer ofte det dypeste alvor. | Niels Bohr (1885-1962) |
| Den fulle sannhet om et menneske er det bare èn som vet. | Sigurd Christiansen (1891-1947) |
| Den Hellige ånds blyant har anstrengt seg mer for å beskrive Jobs plager enn Salomos lykksalighet. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Den som innser sine mangler er på vei mot åndelig modenhet. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Den som snakker sant, trenger ikke leite etter ord. | Ordtak |
| Det er ille at det ble sagt, og verre at det er sant. | Ordtak |
| Det er lett å være ærlig, hvis man selv kan bestemme hva som er sannhet. | Chauteaubriand |
| Det er sant det du ser, hvis det du ser er sant. | Chauteaubriand |
| Det er umulig å bære sannhetens fakkel ut i en menneskevrimmel uten å svi skjegget på en eller annen. | Chauteaubriand |
| Det forferdelige er at når man søker sannheten, så finner man den. | Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) |
| Det fryktelige er at når man søker sannheten så finner man den. | Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) |
| Det gjelder å finne en sannhet som er sannhet for meg. | Søren Kierkegaard |
| En sannhet kommer innenfra, en sannhet kommer utenfra, og der de møtes har en muliget til å se seg selv. | Armensk Ordtak |
| Gi en hest til den som sier sannhet, for han har bruk for å komme unna i en fart. | Armensk Ordtak |
| Hvis vi gjør en delsannhet til helsannhet, blir resultatt usannhet. | Per Arne Dahl |
| Jeg lyver aldri! Men jeg forteller ikke sannheten til alle | Paolo Sarpi |
| Jeg taler sannhet, ikke så mye som jeg ville, men så mye som jeg tør. Og jeg tør litt mer ettersom jeg blir eldre. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Kjærligheten er større enn sannheten. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Kvinner elsker å høre sannheten - især sannheten om andre kvinner. | Lone Hertz |
| Kynisme er en ubehagelig måte å si sannheten på. | Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) |
| Løgnen ligger så nær opp til sannheten at en klok mann ikke bør stole på at han kan balansere på en så stram line | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Man skylder de levende hensyn; de døde, kun sannheten. | Voltaire |
| Min form for spøk er å si sannheten. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Om det ikke er sant, er det iallfall godt funnet på. | Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) |
| Sandheden er dyrebar - brug den med sparsomhed. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Sannhet er tidens datter. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Sannhet holder hendene renere enn såpe. | Nigeriansk Ordtak |
| Sannheten er den til enhver tid gjeldende løgn. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Sannheten er det hardeste kasteskyts en kan bli bombadert med. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Sannheten er merkeligere enn diktningen, men det skyldes at diktingen må holde seg til det som er sannsynlig; det må ikke sannheten | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Sannheten er så tilsløret i vår tid, og løgnen står seg så godt, at man ikke kan kjenne sannheten igjen, med mindre man elsker den. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Sannheten er som olje, den flyter alltid ovenpå. | Ordtak |
| Sannheten om andre synes oss mer enkel enn sannheten om oss selv. | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Sannheten virker ikke støtende, med mindre den bør gjøre det | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Sannhetens og frihetens ånd, - det er samfunnets støtter. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Sannhetens stemme kjennes lett. | Wolof |
| Sier man sannheten, blir man før eller siden avslørt. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Skal De beskrive sannheten, må de overlate elegansen til skredderen. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Slå aldri av på det som er godt og rent. Det er så feigt, og du angrer det så fryktelig. | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |