Quotes about Truth

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge

a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different