Quotes on Truth

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.