Truth Quotes

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it"

"The truth will set you free"

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"The great majority of us are more concerned about appearing to be successful than in being successful ourselves."

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

"Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip service to free enterprise while working to destroy it."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis."

"The very first of all the commandments of God is that of honesty."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"The writer's duty is to bear witness to truth, even when it frightens us."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

"There are times when men have to rise above their loyalties to truth."

"Man occasionally stumbles over truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue."

"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills."

"A Cause may be inconvenient, but it should never be false."

"The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent."

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"I've come to believe that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we live daily in America."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"Man's inhumanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad; it is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"A person may feel he is adjusting beautifully to his world while he is, in fact, being cynically exploited."