Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

A lie cannot live.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

The lie is a condition of life.

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

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.