Truth Quotes

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not.

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

The road to salvation is through truth.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Go wherever the facts lead.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.