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Truth Quotes
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."
165
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
154
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
154
"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
152
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
128
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
121
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
117
"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."
107
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
107
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
107
"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments."
106
"There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points."
103
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
101
"We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience."
100
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
91
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
78
"Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side."
77
"Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world."
76
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
75
"Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again."
74
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
74
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
72
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
71
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
67
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
66
"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
64
"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."
64
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
63
"Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings."
63
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
62
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