Famous Truth Quotes
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
By doubting we come at truth.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Truth is the daughter of time.
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
