Truth Quotes

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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. — John Dryden
We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion. — E. W. Howe
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. — Unknown Author
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision. — Abraham Lincoln
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope… — John Stuart Mill
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. — Margaret Fuller
At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment. — George Washington
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun. — Vernon Howard
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. — Alfred North Whitehead
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest… — Grenville Kleiser
The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding the truth itself… — Unknown Author
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True. — Henry Van Dyke
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. — Bertrand Russell
History has its truth; and so has legend hers. — Victor Hugo
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. — Thomas Huxley
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series… — Horace Mann
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof.… — George Washington
Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. — Saint Augustine
The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it… — Orville Dewey
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is… — Corin Nemec
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May… — L. Tom Perry
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a… — Woody Allen

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