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Quotes About Truth

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
~ Sir Edward Coke
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Books speak plain when counselors blanch.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Lie faces God and shrikns from men
~ Sir Francis Bacon
leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.
~ Sir Hall Caine
Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.
~ Sir Hall Caine
How happy is he born and taught,That serveth not another's will;Whose armor is his honest thought,And simple truth his utmost skill!
~ Sir Henry Wotton
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
~ Sir Henry Wotton
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
~ Sir John A. MacDonald
Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss, und kaum das.
~ Sir Karl Raimund Popper
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
~ Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road.
~ Sir Norman Angell
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
think I none so simple would say that Aesop lied in the tales of his beasts: for who thinks that Aesop writ it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.'
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Many… have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
~ Sir Thomas Browne