1,019 Quotes Regarding Truth


Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Hypatia

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Albert Pike

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
John Stuart Mill

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus

Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.
Thomas a Kempis

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie