Quotes on Truth Is

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.