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Quotes About Truth

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
~ Horace
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.
~ Bill Hicks
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
~ Giordano Bruno
In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
~ Michel Foucault
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
~ Taiye Selasi
I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth
~ Katharine Hepburn
I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.
~ Joseph Estrada
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
~ Eda LeShan
Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
~ Donald Miller
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.
~ Ellen G. White
Too much truth Is uncouth.
~ Franklin P. Adams
[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
~ Jay-Z
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
~ Lawren Harris
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
~ Saint Augustine
Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
~ John Stott
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
~ Jodi Picoult
I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!
~ Akiane Kramarik