Truth Quotes

"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

"Truthful, adj. Dumb and illiterate."

Ambrose Bierce

"Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves."

G. K. Chesterton

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses but answer: 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.'"

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

Cicero

"Nature loves to hide."

Heraclitus

"Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well."

Democritus

"Most people will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

Thucydides

"What people believe prevails over the truth."

Sophocles

"Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"

John Milton

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear."

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."

Elie Wiesel

"Your silence will not protect you."

Audre Lorde

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."

Carl Sagan

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

Richard Feynman

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die."

Max Planck

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

Niels Bohr

"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."

Victor Hugo

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

Leo Tolstoy

"Truth must be repeated again and again, because error also is being preached all the while."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority, not violation of integrity."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where words come out from the depth of truth; where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection."