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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

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

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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

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.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

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

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

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

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

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

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.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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.

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

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

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

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.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

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.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

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

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.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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.

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

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

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

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

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

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

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‘.

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.