Truth Is Quotes

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The truth is always in the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because as a rule the minority is made up of those who actually have an opinion, while the strength of the majority is illusory, formed of that crowd which has no opinion — and which therefore the next moment (when it becomes clear that the minority is the stronger) adopts the latter's opinion, which now is in the majority, i. e. becomes rubbish by having the whole retinue and numerousness on its side, while the truth is again in a new minority.

My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A half truth is a whole lie.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.