Quotes on Truth

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.