truth quotes

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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

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.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

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

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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.

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.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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.

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

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.

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

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

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

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

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

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Justice is truth in action.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

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

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

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

Seeing is not always believing.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.