- The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
- The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.
- Steve Wynn on Truth
- The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
- Peter Abelard on Truth
- The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau on Truth
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on Truth
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
- Carl Bernstein on Truth
- The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
- James Allen on Truth
- The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Truth
- The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
- Thomas Huxley on Truth
- The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
- William Bernbach on Truth
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Lewis Thomas on Truth
- The object of the superior man is truth.
- The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- Simone Weil on Truth
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr on Truth
- The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
- Kim Il-sung on Truth
- The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
- Randy Neugebauer on Truth
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau on Truth
- The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
- Donald Rumsfeld on Truth
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein on Truth
- The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Truth
- The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow on Truth
- The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau on Truth
- The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
- Edmond De Goncourt on Truth
- The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt on Truth
- The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
- Henry Louis Gates on Truth
- The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
- Henry Louis Gates on Truth
- The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
- Jeremy Bentham on Truth
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
- Joseph Conrad on Truth
- The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
- Vincent D'Onofrio on Truth
- 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 on Truth
- The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
- Newt Gingrich on Truth
- The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
- Dave Barry on Truth
- The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
- The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
- Charles Lamb on Truth
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Henry Miller on Truth
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- Henry Louis Gates on Truth
- The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey on Truth
- The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman on Truth
- The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
- Newt Gingrich on Truth
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
- Hannah Arendt on Truth
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor on Truth
- The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
- Rush Limbaugh on Truth
- The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
- The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
- B. C. Forbes on Truth
- The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
- Graham Greene on Truth
- The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard on Truth
- The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
- Peter Ustinov on Truth
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