Truth Quotes

"The essence of truth is in its simplicity."

"The persistence of truth is its greatest power."

"The pursuit of truth requires the surrender of certainty."

"The truth does not fear scrutiny."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"The desire that guides me is to find the absolute truth and reveal it."

"I spent the greater part of my life looking for truth."

"I plant my feet on a firm foundation and will not accept unsupported claims."

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle."

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but the burden of proof is always on the claimant."

"The truth may be puzzling. It may contradict deeply held beliefs. But we must follow it wherever it leads."

"The universe will not allow you to live in comfortable delusions."

"The pursuit of truth requires humility and openness to being wrong."

"Skepticism is not cynicism. It is a commitment to truth."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."

"Nature doesn't care what's in your head – only what you can demonstrate."

"I am always saddened by the fact that the world is not what I think."

"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"Absurdities must eventually vanish before truth."

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true."

"I do not feign hypotheses."

"It is not the arrival at truth that matters, but the search for it."

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long."

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."

"The fact that life has evolved is now to me the most certain of all facts."

"I have attempted to write truthfully and candidly about the great interest of the subject."

"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult to constantly bear this conclusion in mind."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

"Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."