Truth Quotes
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America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.
Nathanael Greene
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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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After all the years of spiritual work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.
Geri Larkin
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Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.
Ernest Sosa
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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
Emanuel Lasker
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Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.
Michael Jackson
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The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.
Michael Novak
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If there is no truth, there is no injustice.
Norman Geras
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.
Eliza Griswold
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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Gerald Massey
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The majority falls prey to the delusion—popular in some circles—that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth—born of experience—is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
Alex Kozinski
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All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.
Nicholas of Cusa
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno
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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
Epictetus
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What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.
Brooke Hogan
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War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why do TEMPLES beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.
Neill F. Marriott
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Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.
Jimmy Carter
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One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.
Eric Ludy
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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
William Penn
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'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'
Dashiell Hammett
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin