Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
Does truth have a moral?
Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
