Quotes About Truth

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

An honest heart loves the Truth.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.