Quotes About Truth

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Round numbers are always false.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth is not.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, youre misinformed.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

The difference between truth and fiction is that the latter must always be credible in order to work.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

To describe America as a "nation of immigrants" is to stretch a partial truth into a misleading falsehood, and to ignore the central fact of America's beginning as a society of settlers.

A good honest and painful sermon.

Truth is what's important in the world. But is what's important always the truth?