Quotes About Truth

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Light is the symbol of truth.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.