Quotes
Quotes about Truth
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]
Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]
Music tells no truths.
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fallâthink of it, ALWAYS.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
