Truth Quotes

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You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd. — Flannery O'Connor
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery — Ben Harper
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. — David Halberstam
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. — Arthur Keith
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. — William H. Masters
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of… — Baruch Spinoza
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for… — Joseph Goebbels
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. — James Gibbons
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar… — Michel de Montaigne
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but… — William Shakespeare
Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while… — Thomas Jefferson
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom… — Thomas Jefferson
I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual… — Thomas Jefferson
If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the… — Thomas Jefferson
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the… — Thomas Jefferson
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our… — Thomas Jefferson
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural… — Thomas Jefferson

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