Truth Quotes

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the 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.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

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.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.