Truth Quotes

"A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know."

"When in doubt tell the truth."

"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

"Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road."

"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."

"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."

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

"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."

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."

"Time discovers truth."

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally."

"Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!"

"There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness."

"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."

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

"The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."

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

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers."

"Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."

"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."

"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."

"My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth."

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."

"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."

"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."

"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."

"It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

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

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."

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

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

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

"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

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

"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."