Quotes About The Importance Of Truth

#1. If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Howard Gardner

#2. Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Os Guinness

#4. Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Edward Snowden

#5. The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

Liberty Ross

#6. That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.

Jordan B. Peterson

#8. Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born in conflict, and it has been characterised by conflict ever since. The Church's obsession with heresy is witness to this fact.

Richard Holloway

#9. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions ... to practice them ever while I lived.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Set between England and the Spanish Canary Islands, three women learn the truth about their shared past, and discover the importance of family. Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona.

Rosanna Ley

#11. The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Ken Auletta

#12. It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Oscar Wilde

#13. I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life.

Candi Sary

#14. In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

Northrop Frye

#15. The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

Ronald Reagan

#16. I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

Benjamin Franklin

#17. Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Warren Bennis

#18. The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

Pearl S. Buck

#19. I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character.

Jacqueline Winspear

#20. Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

Kathryn Kuhlman

#21. There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth ... treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

Sean McDonough

#23. The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Michael Crichton

#25. I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Babe Paley

#26. I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions - and should be vigorously opposed.

Steve Allen

#27. Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.

John Lennon

#28. but even if true belief about matters of importance is of intrinsic value, it does not follow that the value of truth should always trump every other value with which it might compete.

Tim Bayne

#29. Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

Ernest Mandel

#30. What do you believe in ?"
"People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

Simone De Beauvoir

#31. I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

Sean McDonough

#32. Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.

Lik Hock Yap

#33. This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#34. In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Cecelia Ahern

#35. This is pretty simple stuff. But the truth is, the reality of making money and wise decisions isn't very complicated. However, not many people understand the importance of a don't-worry attitude. If you do, you're one step ahead of the game.

Richard Carlson

#36. Not to have a confused church is to teach paramount importance of the truth

Sunday Adelaja

#37. When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.

Joan Bauer

#38. I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys and sorrows of my relatives bore me to my soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

Franz Kafka

#39. Rebellion is not going to go away ... What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped ... The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive ... We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

Chris Hedges

#40. The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

Sam Donaldson