The Truth Quotes

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Even coal shimmers in the light