Truth

(573 votes)   We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, as must, if it be honest, also come an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

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(249 votes)   One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(225 votes)   The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(221 votes)   If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alder
1870-1937, German Author

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(221 votes)   Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(216 votes)   Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(208 votes)   What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(201 votes)   Too much truth is uncouth.

Franklin P. Adams
1881-1960, American Journalist, Humorist

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(177 votes)   A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(165 votes)   True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(152 votes)   I'm not happy, but I smile My mind is racing, and I smile My heart is aching, still smiling I don't know what to do, how to act, or who to be No one sees, because I'm still smiling

CourtneyJo Wright
brilliant 17 year old girl who has lived a rough life and wrote about it for the benefit of other people

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(147 votes)   Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come. Doctrine & Covenants 93:24

Doctrine & Covenants

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(131 votes)   Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin

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(123 votes)   The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Joseph F. Smith

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(109 votes)   The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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