Truth Quotes

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.