Truth Quotes

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off, it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'