Truth Quotes

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

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

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.