Truth Quotes

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Justice is truth in action.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.