Quotes about Truth

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.