Quotes About Truth

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one's natural, original state.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.