Quotes about Truth

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.