Truth Quotes

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

- Bob Dylan

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

- Rene Descartes

How the line in life, nature, science, phylosophy, religion constantly returns into itself. The opposite poles become one when the circle is completed. All truth revolves about one center. All is a manifestation of one law.

- Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley

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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Actions lie louder than words.

- Carolyn Wells

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

- John Stuart Mill

Live truth instead of expressing it.

- Elbert Hubbard

The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

- Francis Bacon

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

- Talmud

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

- Parker J. Palmer

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

- Lillian Hellman

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

- Madame de Stael

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

- Madame de Stael

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

- Lillian Hellman

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

- Harry S Truman

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

- Thomas Mann

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To tell the truth is revolutionary.

- Antonio Gramsci

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi