The Truth Quotes

Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

No one individual can tell the truth.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

The life of truth is cold.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Men from children nothing differ.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.