1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Walter Martin

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
Kenneth Starr

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
Jose Ramos-Horta

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Benito Mussolini

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
John Jay Chapman

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft

There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
Stephen Colbert

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
Julie Burchill

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
Andre Malraux

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Daisaku Ikeda

Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Sloane Crosley

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
Sloane Crosley