Truth Quotes

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

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.

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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.