Truth Quotes

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Truth is a big concept.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

Half a truth is better than no politics.