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Quotes About Truth

I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.
~ Don McCullin
Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth,your heart is completely free.
~ Liberty Ross
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's definitely been moments in my life, even recently, where I've taken chances or spoken up about something where I don't know how it's gonna go, but it is true, or it is my truth. That's kind of that trusting life.
~ Tig Notaro
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
~ Rick Perlstein
We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people will dismiss eyewitness accounts, on the basis of their gut feelings; where they will refute scientific discoveries because the scientist just doesn't look trustworthy.
~ Romesh Ranganathan
Turgenev's achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy.
~ Hisham Matar
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~ Buddha
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
~ Albert Camus
The object of the superior man is truth.
~ Confucius
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
~ Aristotle
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
~ Horace Mann
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
~ Justin Timberlake
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
~ Herodotus
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
~ Thomas Huxley
Sincerity is moral truth.
~ George Henry Lewes
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
~ Frank A. Clark
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
~ Corliss Lamont
Justice is truth in action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
~ Albert Einstein