Quotes about Truth

The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter - it`s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain

I love the world so much that I am sure I want to know the truth about it.

Daniel Dennett

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Justice, while she winks at Crimes,
Stumbles on Innocence sometimes.

Samuel Butler

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every one wishes to have Truth on his side; but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth.

Richard Whately

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Alexis Carrel

The truth isn`t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Franz Kafka

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.

Mark Twain

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson