Quotes on Truth

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.