Quotes About Truth

The truth does not need to be defended.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Speaking truth to power is actually a form of loyalty.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.