Quotes About Truth

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

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.

The truth is the best propaganda.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.