Truth Quotes

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

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

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

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

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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