Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
—Aldous Huxley
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
—Blaise Pascal
Prefer the company of a stranger who loves the truth to the company of a friend who doesn’t.
—Leo Tolstoy
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth.
I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Social life is based on consciousness, not science. If there’s no honesty, no respect for truth, no respect for responsibilities, no love of one’s neighbor—in a word, if there’s no virtue—everything is in danger, everything crumbles.
—Leo Tolstoy
The truth brings no man a fortune.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
—Blaise Pascal
We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life. – C.S. Lewis
Love truth, but pardon error.
—Voltaire
The Truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can kill a person who speaks the truth, but once spoken the truth remains.
—Leo Tolstoy
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
I only wish, that I may have grace given me to preach the truth, as it is in JESUS; and then, come what will, I hope I shall (as I do, blessed be GOD) rejoice.
—George Whitefield
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
—John Locke
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
—John Locke
Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.
—John Locke
Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.
—John Locke
But in truth the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them, and to these they all universally pay a ready submission.
—John Locke
In truth not of any force to draw those into bondage who have their eyes open.
—John Locke
Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.
—John Locke
Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.
—John Locke
Your home has its own truth and power and will!
—Taras Shevchenko
Nobody has a monopoly on truth or virtue.
—Peter R. Rose