Quotes About Truth

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.

OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no more after today! I who first saw the light bred of a match accursed, and accursed in my living with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.

so I believed—what a handsome prince you raised— under the skin, what sickness to the core.

I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.

I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news

I try to say what I mean; it's my habit.

Every slander wins belief Aimed at souls whose worth is chief:

How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! I knew it well, but I put it from my mind, else I never would have come.

None of you knows— and I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, not to say your own.

The truth with all its power lives inside me.

I say you are the murderer you hunt.

Indeed, if the truth has any power.

No, but I came by, Oedipus the ignorant

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life

And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children.

But don't convict me on sheer unverified surmise.

How wrong it is to take the good for bad, purely at random, or take the bad for good.

What if you're wholly wrong?

I tell you the truth, you gave me life my breath leapt up in you and now you bring down night upon my eyes.

I tell you neither the waters of the Danube nor the Nile can wash this palace clean.

KREON. Ich gehe, von dir verkannt, gerecht jedoch vor diesen.

once he returns, then, then I'll be a traitor if I do not do all the god makes clear.