Quotes: Truth

“Our job is to integrate these various truths into the whole truth, which should be our only loyalty.” Abraham Maslow

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” 
― Malcolm X

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” 
― C.S. Lewis

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.” 
― Maya Angelou

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” 
― Walt Whitman

“Love truth, but pardon error.” 
― Voltaire

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.” 
― Gautama Buddha

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” 
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?” 
― Carl Sagan

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to 
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” 
― Abraham Lincoln

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” 
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.” 
― Aristotle

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” 
― René Descartes

“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.” 
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.” 
― Thomas Jefferson,

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” 
― Blaise Pascal

“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.” 
― Gautama Buddha

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” 
― Albert Einstein

“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

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” 
― Albert Einstein