Truth Quotes

"The test of truth is whether it stands the test of experience."

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."

"The theory is captured by the facts."

"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing."

"Madness and reason are locked in struggle, and it is through this confrontation that truth emerges."

"Madness was not discovered; it was invented as a category to define and exclude the abnormal."

"We should not ask what society keeps hidden, but rather what it compels us to reveal about ourselves."

"Truth is what counts as true within a particular system of knowledge, not what corresponds to reality."

"The measure of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."

"In politics, as in life, integrity is the only currency that never loses its value."

"A government that is transparent will be trusted; a government that is secretive will be suspected."

"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world."

"The very corner-stone of our whole system rests upon the people's right to know."

"The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness."

"You must go back to the fountains of truth to refresh yourself."

"Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness."

"Prejudice is in the nature of an instinct; it leads us to believe things because we fear them or desire them."

"There is a standard, but it is not the standard of each one's own opinion."

"Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil."

"The preservation of truth requires constant vigilance against the encroachment of prejudice and error."

"The pursuit of truth is the only pursuit worthy of the highest human faculties."

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"Let the credit of a nation's character be as carefully guarded as the purity of a woman's reputation."

"Sincerity is not compatible with either prudence or policy."

"He who lies has no idea what a serious matter it is."

"Truth is the property of a proposition when it corresponds with reality."

"A lie is the attempt to bridge the gap between what is and what we wish to be."

"The most important of all the virtues is truth."

"Truth is the basis of all that is good."

"Truth must always prevail."