Truth Quotes

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

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

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.

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.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

When in doubt tell the truth.

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

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Science is but an image of the truth.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.