Quotes About Truth

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms… this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

By far the best proof is experience.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.