Quotes about Truth
Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl's child than you are!
— Mark Twain
To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.
— Mark Twain
No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.
— Mark Twain
Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.
— Mark Twain
Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.
— Mark Twain
The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
— Mark Twain
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
— Mark Twain
There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from Rediscovering Lost Values)
— Martin Luther King, Jr.