Quotes About Truth

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Terminological inexactitude.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

A nice frame doesn't make a nice picture.

If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.

Whereas the rulers of Germany in 1914 and her allies who provoked World War I were—to use the term in its most generous sense—at least "gentlemen," the leaders of the Axis powers in 1941 were thugs. They were, most of them, amoral murderers and brutish torturers who gained power through assassination and corruption, and more than sixty years after the fact this remains a stubborn truth.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.