I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Tell the children the truth.

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.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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

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

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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 in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

A lie cannot live.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

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

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.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Facts are stubborn things.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

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.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first 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.