truth quotes

• Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. (Margaret Thatcher) [truth]
• Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. (Henry David Thoreau) [poetry/truth/philosophy]
• Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. (Henry David Thoreau) [truth/love]
• It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear. (Henry David Thoreau) [speak/truth/speak]
• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded. (Henry David Thoreau) [fear/experience/truth]
• The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. (Henry David Thoreau) [truth/words]
• True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. (Henry David Thoreau) [truth/beauty/point]
• If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library? (Lily Tomlin) [truth/beauty]
• History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. (Mark Twain) [truth]
• A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants. (Mark Twain) [truth]
• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. (Mark Twain) [truth/people]
• I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. (Mark Twain) [truth]
• Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. (Mark Twain) [truth]
• Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. (Mark Twain) [truth/time]
• No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. (Mark Twain) [willpower/truth]
• Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. (Mark Twain) [writers/truth]
• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. (Simone Weil) [truth]
• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. (Simone Weil) [power/truth/writers/genius]
• Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. (Simone Weil) [humanism/thinking/truth/beauty]
• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause! (Walt Whitman) [art/desires/truth/thoughts]
• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. (Walt Whitman) [truth]
• If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you. (Billy Wilder) [people/truth/willpower]
• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. (Oscar Wilde) [truth/reality]
• It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. (Oscar Wilde) [truth/quarrel/quarrel/words]
• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. (Oscar Wilde) [truth]
• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. (Oscar Wilde) [truth]
• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde) [give/willpower/truth]
• Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Virginia Woolf) [idleness/truth/top]
• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. (Virginia Woolf) [truth/women]
• The truth is more important than the facts. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [truth/more/facts]
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Winston Churchill) [truth/chance]

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