Quotes on Truth

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

For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

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.

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

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

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

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

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

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Even when we talked about child labor, we were frowned upon. But then you know that you have to speak the truth irrespective of the repercussions.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.