Quotes About Truth

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.

Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. War begins where reason ends. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Truth shines with brighter light and intenser heat at every moment, and a country torn and rent and bleeding implores relief from its distress and agony.

And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty, and humanity will ultimately prevail.

It is good to think that in Heaven all troubles will be over, that war and carnage will be no more, that all injustice, cruelty and wrong shall be no more; but incomparably better is it for a man to gird on the whole armour of truth and righteousness, and wage war with these evils, and banish them from the Earth -- and thus have the will of God done on Earth as done in Heaven.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake...the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes...denounced.

But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

This is my way, what is your way? The way doesn't exist.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy; hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

It's perfectly logical,' said Dr Snyder. 'It's absolutely proved. You can't lie.' 'But I can,' said the Martian. 'Work on the logic of that a while, Mack.

I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.

If the morality of thou shalt not lie is rejected, the sense for truth will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal:— as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.

Fredrich Nietzsche

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh

Being at one is godlike and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.

In gods and godhead only he can truly believe who himself is godlike.

Convictions are prisons.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.