Famous Truth Quotes
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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.
Science is but an image of the truth.
By doubting we come at truth.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the 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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Truth is the daughter of time.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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.
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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.
