M. Saadat Noury

The object of the superior man is truth: Confucius

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society: Thomas Jefferson

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people: John F. Kennedy

Truth never damages a cause that is just: Mahatma Gandhi

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses: Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts: Abraham Lincoln

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want: Muhammad Ali Clay

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word: Martin Luther King, Jr

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth: Buddha

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth: Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is: Winston Churchill

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth: Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth is a great flirt: Franz Liszt

We have art in order not to die of the truth: Friedrich Nietzsche

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting: Buddha

I am of the Buddhists.  The great Teacher comes periodically.  He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re-establish the truth: Martin H. Fischer

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter: Denis Diderot

All great truths begin as blasphemies: George Bernard Shaw

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man: Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history: Plato

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth: Aristotle

Truth is the breath of life to human society.  It is the food of the immortal spirit.  Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold: Leo Tolstoy

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth: Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light: George Washington

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant: Edgar Allan Poe

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial: Edgar Allan Poe

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed: Robert Brault

People always think something's all true: J.D. Salinger

Never forget what people say to you when they're angry; that's when the truth comes out: Unknown

if someone has enough courage to ask you a question seriously, then you should be brave enough to answer truthfully: Cameron Milton

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth: Benjamin Disraeli

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth: Tim O'Brien

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen

Anyone who does not take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either: Albert Einstein

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it: French Proverb

We do not err because truth is difficult to see.  It is visible at a glance.  We err because this is more comfortable: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable: James A. Garfield

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.  In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident: Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no truth.  There is only perception: Gustave Flaubert

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on: Stopford Brooke

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out: Rabindranath Tagore
 
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please, you can never have both: Ralph Waldo Emerson

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad: Aldous Huxley

It is error alone which needs the support of government.  Truth can stand by itself: Thomas Jefferson

There is no god higher than truth: Mahatma Gandhi

When in doubt tell the truth: Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it: Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't: Mark Twain

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained: Mahatma Gandhi

The trouble about man is twofold.  He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple: Rebecca West

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth: Werner Heisenberg

There is no Truth.  There is only the truth within each moment: Ramana Maharshi

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock: Charles Caleb Colton

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth: Oscar Wilde

“In the court of the Truth, at the time of our demise
Shame on he, who permissible never defies
Where to now, O proud partridge halt and pause
Your delusions, prayers of the pious cat, never ever identifies
Hafez, mad Dervishes upon the path, do not criticize
Freedom from false piety for eternity is our prize”: Hafez Shirazi

پیشـگاه حـقیقـت
فردا کـه پیشـگاه حـقیقـت شود پدید
شرمـنده ره روی که عمـل بر مـجاز کرد
ای کبک خوش خرام کجا می روی بایسـت
غره مـشو کـه گربـه زاهد نـماز کرد
حافـظ مکـن مـلامـت رندان که در ازل
ما را خدا ز زهد ریا بی نیاز کرد : حافـظ شیرازی 

شربتی از حقیقت عشق
شربتی دادش از حقیقت عشق
جمله اخلاص ها از او برمید
این نشان بدایت عشق است
هیچ کس در نهایتش نرسید : مولوی

از روی حقیقت
من غلام توام ازروی حقیقت لیکن
 با وجودت نتوان گفت که من خود هستم
دایما عادت من گوشه نشستن بودی
تا تو برخاسته ای از طلبت ننشستم : سعدی شیرازی

قلندران حقیقت
قلندران حقیقت به نیم جو نخرند
قبای اطلس آن کس که از هنر عاری ست
بر آستان تو مشکل توان رسید آری
عروج بر فلک سروری به دشواری ست : حافـظ شیرازی

حقیقت و یقین
چون نیست حقیقت و یقین اندر دست
نتوان به امید شک همه عمر نشست
هان تا ننهیم جام می از کف دست
در بی خبری مرد چه هشیار و چه مست : خیام نیشابوری

حقیقت و افسانه
آسمان بار امانت نتوانست کشید
قرعه کار به نام من دیوانه زدند
جنگ هفتاد و دو ملت همه را عذر بنه
چون ندیدند حقیقت ره افسانه زدند : حافظ شیرازی

هاتف حقیقت
ای مدعی کجایی تا ملک ما ببینی
کز هرچه بود در ما برداشت یار ما را
آمد خطاب ذوقی از هاتف حقیقت
کای خسته چون بیابی اندوه زار ما را : عطار نیشابوری

پرتو ی حقیقت
اگر چه در ره هستی هزار دشواری ست
چو پر کاه پریدن ز جا ، سبکساری ست
به چشم عقل ببین پرتو حقیقت را
مگوی نور تجلی فسون و طراری ست : پروین اعتصامی

زیر کلاه عشق و حقیقت
در شهربند مهر و وفا دلبری نماند
زیر کلاه عشق و حقیقت سری نماند
صاحبدلی چو نیست، چه سود از وجود دل؟
آیینه گو مباش چو اسکندری نماند: ملک‌الشعرای بهار

سخن از حقیقت
بر روی خاک شعر که خاک بلاغت است
آن دم قدم بنه ، که سخن از حقیقت است
هر جاودانه شعر ، بیان از صداقت است
پس صادقانه گوی ، که آنرا طریقت است

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