Quotes
Quotes about Truth
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
In truth everything and everyone
In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
