Truth Quotes

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

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

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.