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Quotes About Truth

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
~ Tom Morello
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
~ Edwin Powell Hubble
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
~ Gerry Spence
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
~ Nellie L. McClung
The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.
~ Irwin Kula
Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
~ John F. Carlson
It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.
~ Cornelius Van Til
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
~ Robert Capa
Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth.
~ Alistair Begg
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
~ Sri Aurobindo
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.
~ Robert E. Lee
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
~ Walter Savage Landor
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
~ Agatha Christie
They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
~ R. D. Laing
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~ Confucius
We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.
~ Neill F. Marriott
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.
~ Trevor Noah
Lying can never save us from another lie.
~ Vaclav Havel
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche