Quotes about truth

"The great seal of truth is simplicity."

Boerhaave, Herman on truth   

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Bohr, Niels on truth
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"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

Bohr, Niels on truth   

"Truth alone wounds."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on truth   

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on truth
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"Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false."

Bradley, Francis H. on truth   

"It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected."

Bradshaw, John on truth   

"The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity."

Brandes, George on truth   

"There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see."

Brittain, Vera on truth   

"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."

Browne, Sir Thomas on truth   

"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without."

Browning, Robert on truth
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"Truth never hurts the teller."

Browning, Robert on truth
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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

Bryant, William C. on truth
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"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on truth   

"There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth."

Butler, Samuel on truth   

"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."

Butler, Samuel on truth   

"Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."

Byron, Lord on truth   

"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."

Camus, Albert on truth   

"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."

Carrel, Alexis on truth   

"What I tell you three times is true."

Carroll, Lewis on truth
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"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water."

Cervantes, Miguel De on truth   

"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."

Cervantes, Miguel De on truth
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on truth
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on truth   

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

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

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."

Cicero, Marcus T. on truth   

"See it like it is!"

Cohen, Herb on truth   

"It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass."

Collier, Robert on truth   

"Theories are private property, but truth is common stock."

Colton, Charles Caleb on truth   

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

Colton, Charles Caleb on truth   

"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

Confucius on truth
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"Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true."

Cooper, James F. on truth   

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"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."

Cowper, William on truth   

"Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened."

Cronkite, Walter on truth   

"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."

Darrow, Clarence on truth   

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

Darrow, Clarence on truth
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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

Davies, Robertson on truth
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"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."

Davies, Robertson on truth   

"Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently"

Deupree, Richard on truth