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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."
113
"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
88
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
86
"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."
84
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
80
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
79
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
79
"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."
74
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
73
"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."
65
"Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world."
64
"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."
63
"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."
63
"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."
60
"The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments."
59
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
59
"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."
58
"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."
58
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
53
"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."
52
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
52
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
51
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
50
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
49
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
49
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