Truth Quotes

"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."

"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."

"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

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

"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

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

"You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people."

"Truth never was indebted to a lie."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."

"The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."

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

"Truth is a tendency."

"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."

"Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up."

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

"Tell the children the truth."

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."

"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."

"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."

"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."

"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."

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

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

"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."

"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."

"The truth is more important than the facts."

"In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God."

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."

"Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions."

"The words of truth are simple."

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."

"You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good."

"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living."

"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."

"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."

"No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love."

"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

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