Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Truth
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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
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By doubting we come at truth.
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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
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