Quotes on Truth

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

A hair divides what is false and true.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.