Truth Quotes

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths."

"Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."

"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."

"There is no god higher than truth."

"One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth."

"This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd"

"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

"I am accusing the truth commission of being abused and not performing the task which it was supposed to perform,"

"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction."

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

"Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small."