Quotes About Truth

Tell it anyway. Little words can mean death or life sometimes.

If what you plan is just, why do it in the dark?

Minua pilkkasit sokeudestani. Sanon: Et näe näkevillä silmillä, kuka asuu kanssasi tässä alhossa.

El que no tiene temor ante los hechos tampoco tiene miedo a la palabra.

sólo el tiempo muestra al hombre justo, mientras que podrías conocer al perverso en un solo día.

Tu peux manquer de foi à d'autres, avec moi sois toujours vrai.

Nada temo, pues mantengo la verdad, que es poderosa.

ÖDIPUS. Nun denn, von neuem werd ich, abermals, das Dunkel lichten.

My mother did not look away and she did not pretend.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is too believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Existen dos maneras de ser engañados: una es creer lo que no es verdad y la otra es negarse a aceptar lo que sí lo es.

Det gäller att finna en sanning, som är sanning för mig, att finna en idé för vilken jag vill leva och dö.

But what every man has not a right to do, is to make others believe that faith is something lowly, or that it is an easy thing, whereas it is the greatest and the hardest.