Truth Quotes - Page 96

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

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

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.