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Quotes About Truth

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~ Edith Sitwell
You can't argue with the truth.
~ Haaz Sleiman
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal
In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
~ Johnny Depp
One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
~ James Lovelock
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
~ Bill Gates
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
~ Hans Eysenck
Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.
~ Maria Ressa
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
~ Helen Thomas
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
~ Will Rogers
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn't changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing's changing, and it really never was gonna change.
~ Rush Limbaugh
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
~ Willie Nelson
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
~ Gerard Way
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
~ John Locke