Famous Truth Quotes
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Silence is the mother of truth.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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.
From error to error, one discovers the entire 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.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
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.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
By doubting we come at 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 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.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Truth is the daughter of time.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.