Quotes About Truth

Human kind cannot bear very much reality'.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

I should like to see any man's biography with corrections and emendations by his ghost. We don't know each other's secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do. We don't always know our own secrets as well as we might.

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

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Lloremos. ¡Ah! Lloremos purificantes lágrimas, hasta ver disolverse el odio, la mentira, y lograr algún día -sin los ojos lluviosos- volver a sonreírle a la vida que pasa.