Truth

I design plain truth for plain people.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

It takes two to speak the truth,—one to speak, and another to hear.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.

Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they take for granted and remain incapable of explaining them. For if your starting point is unknown, and your end-point and intermediate stages are woven together out of unknown material, there may be coherence, but knowledge is completely out of the question.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

The lie is a condition of life.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Time discovers truth.