Truth Quotes

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

When in doubt tell the truth.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.