Truth Quotes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

See it like it is!

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.