All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The truth is more important than the facts.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.