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Quotes About Truth

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
~ Walt Whitman
O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.
~ John Knox
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
~ George Washington
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
~ Rick Warren
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
~ William Golding
Hell is truth seen too late.
~ Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
~ Dogen
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
~ Ice Cube
Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'
~ Joe Strummer
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
~ Parmenides
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
~ St. Vincent de Paul
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.
~ Bernie Sanders
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
~ Aristotle
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.
~ Tony Gaskins
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
~ Lotte Reiniger
The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
~ Pythagoras