Quotes on Truth

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

I feel like my career is to speak truth to power, and a lot of times, that sounds like troublemaking. If speaking truth is troublemaking, then yes, I will consider myself a professional at that.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.