“The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.”
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
“We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”
“To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.”
“Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”
“The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.”
“It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”
“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
“If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
“Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently”
“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.”
“Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
“Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.”
“When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ''That is the real thing.''”
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
“Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.”
“The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”
“It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.”
“The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
“Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.”
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
“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.”
“It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.”