Quotes About Truth

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

Doubt is not a pleasant state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Facts are stubborn things.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us, the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it, and the wound is best probed.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?