Truth Quotes

"A lie told once remains a lie, but the truth repeats itself."

"What is true for thee is true for me."

"I have spent a lifetime making impermanent metal carry eternal thoughts."

"The conscience is a thousand witnesses against our own wrongdoing."

"Whatever is founded on falsehood will eventually crumble."

"The truth may be inconvenient, but it is always preferable to comfortable lies."

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

"All things are mortal but truth."

"A man's own observation, what he finds good and true in his daily experience, is the highest authority."

"Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all be taught to love truth."

"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to abandon comfortable lies."

"Every shadow has as much importance as every light in the composition of truth."

"To seek beauty is to seek truth by another name."

"The canvas forgives nothing; it demands honesty."

"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."

"I am a lover of truth above all things."

"A single observation can overturn a thousand beliefs."

"Truth whispers; error shouts."

"The observer affects what is observed; this is eternal truth."

"The press does not lie; men do—but now their lies can be challenged in print."

"The press does not change truth; it reveals it or conceals it, but never creates it."

"To speak truth to power requires both conviction and wisdom."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe things because we wish them to be so."

"There is nothing worse than accustoming the people to lies."

"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."

"Better to be a fool than a knave."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"The pursuit of truth should be the primary concern of the soul."