Famous Truth Quotes

'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
-- Samuel Butler

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-- Sherlock Holmes

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
-- George D Prentice

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
-- Lenin

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
-- William Blake

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
-- Galileo

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei.
-- Galileo Galilei

And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.
-- John Vii

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
-- Samuel Butler

Arm thyself for the truth!
-- Edward George Earle

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
-- Bible

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
-- Josh Billings

At times truth may not seem probable.
-- Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.
-- Spinoza

But above all things truth is victor.
-- Bible

But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
-- Francis Bacon

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
-- Dr Laurence Peter

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
-- Thomas Fuller

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
-- Lillian Hellman

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
-- John Dryden