Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

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

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.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The truth is lived, not taught.

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

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.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

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.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Truth is a pathless land.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.