Truth Quotes

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."

"It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."

"Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up."

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

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value."

"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

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

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."

"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."

"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

"The object of the superior man is truth."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."