Quotes About Truth

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

Be bold, free, and truthful.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.