Quotes About Truth

All men desire to know

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Where the interests of truth are at actual stake, we ought, perhaps, to sacrifice even that which is our own--if, at least, we are to lay any claim to a philosophic spirit.

Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites, so that if the decisions of judges are not what they ought to be, the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves, and they must be blamed accordingly.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

Thought is required wherever a statement is proved, or, it may be, a general truth enunciated.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.

theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen

It hit me then. Hard. The actual driver I'd hired had been in the trunk the entire time.

It was like a murder trial in which the district attorney, asked who has been killed, says he doesn't know; and asked about the corpse, says there is no corpse. Imagine killing a figment of someone's imagination.

Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.

Nur die phantasielosen flüchten sich in die Realität.

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.