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Quotes About Truth

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
~ Chris Hedges
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
~ Giordano Bruno
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
~ Mitch Albom
I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.
~ Miriam Makeba
In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
The devil isn't a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he's had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.
~ Andrew Wommack
Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.
~ John Main
In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.
~ Richard John Neuhaus
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
~ Paul Cezanne
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
~ Dick Clark
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
~ George Boole
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!
~ Sadegh Hedayat
The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
~ Abraham Isaac Kook
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
~ Karl Kraus
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
~ Yukio Mishima
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
~ Walt Disney
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
~ Ida Tarbell
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
~ George Washington
There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.
~ Franklin Graham