Truth Quotes

"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."

"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."

"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."

"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."

"Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness."

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."

"The truth is lived, not taught."

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

"We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us."

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are."

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."

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

"Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth."

"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."

"The truth is that while those on the left - particularly the far left - claim to be tolerant and welcoming of diversity, in reality many are quite intolerant of anyone not embracing their radical views."

"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison."

"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

"Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth."

"An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them."

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."

"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."

"Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge."

"It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies."

"No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to."

"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."

"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."

"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."

"The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied."

"Truth is what works."

"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own."

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

"Wisdom is found only in truth."

"You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth."

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers."

"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."

"I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth."