Quotes about truth

"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be."

James, William on truth   

"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead..."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth   

"The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."

Jerrold, Douglas William on truth   

"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joubert, Joseph on truth
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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth."

Keats, John on truth   

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."

Kennedy, John F. on truth   

"No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts."

Kersha, Al on truth   

"A hair divides what is false and true."

Khayyam, Omar on truth
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"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."

Lamb, Charles on truth   

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"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on truth   

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

Lee, Bruce on truth   

"There's nothing you can know that isn't known."

Lennon, John on truth   

"The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event."

Lewis, C. S. on truth   

"Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense."

Liebig on truth
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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong."

Lincoln, Abraham on truth
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"Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on truth   

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

Locke, John on truth   

"The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated."

Low, Albert on truth   

"Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal."

Lowell, James Russell on truth   

"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."

Lowell, James Russell on truth   

"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed."

Lowell, James Russell on truth   

"Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging."

Luther, Martin on truth   

"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."

Luther, Martin on truth
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"The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."

Lynes, Russell on truth   

"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."

Malcolm X on truth
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"We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose."

Malcolm X on truth   

"Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember."

Mamet, David on truth
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"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."

Mann, Horace on truth   

"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise."

Mann, Horace on truth   

"Truth uttered before its time is dangerous."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on truth   

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

Mencken, H. L. on truth
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"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."

Mencken, H. L. on truth   

"We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts."

Merzel, David on truth   

"Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth."

Middleton, Owen C. on truth   

"The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries."

Mill, John Stuart on truth   

"I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on truth   

"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking."

Morgan, John Pierpont on truth