Truth Quotes

“I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.”

“Scientific forecasting... is the only legitimate and logical method of getting at the truth.”

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

“For the only safe harbor in this life is truth.”

“Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it.”

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”

“Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.”

“I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth... that mathematical ideas originate in empirics.”

“By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.”

“Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”

“It is part of a reporter's job to be a nuisance.”

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

“The powerful hate truth.”

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”

“Science is the only news. When you have deserving news, you have a deserving story.”

“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.”

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

“In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.”