Truth Quotes

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Truth is a pathless land.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.