Famous Quotes About truth

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.