Truth Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) British author
It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher author, naturalist
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting falsehood.
Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933) British author
A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent
William Blake (1757-1827) English poet, artist
To become properly acquainted with a truth we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussian statesman
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it
Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) French critic, novelist
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, writer
In this world, truth can wait; she’s used to it.
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) English playwright, humorist
The truth would become more popular if it were not always stating ugly facts.
Henry S. Haskins (b. 1875) American author
Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883) American essayist, poet, philosopher
It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
I tell the truth, not as much as I would but as much as I dare — and I dare more and more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist, moralist
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
It is better to remain silent than speak the truth ill-humouredly, and so spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce
Jean-Pierre Camus (1582-1652) Truth that peeps
Over the glass’s edge when dinner’s done.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle (384-322 BO Greek philosopher
