Quotes About Truth

Every man does have a star. the star of one's honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its out it never lights again.

To admit what you see endangers principles.

This is not god Marco you hear me, only god makes justice.

JIM, gets up: Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. It takes a certain talent . . . for lying. You have it, and I do. But not him.

Porque ahí está mi nombre! ¡Porque no tendré otro mientras viva! ¡Porque he mentido y he firmado mentiras! ¡Porque no merezco besar el polvo que pisan los pies de los que van a ser ahorcados! ¿Cómo voy a vivir sin mi nombre? ¡Le he entregado el alma, déjeme al menos mi nombre!

But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.

The child is much nearer the vision of the self. We must become as little children before we can enter into the realm of truth. This is why we are required to put aside the sophistication of the learned. The need for being born again is insisted on. It is said that the wisdom of babes is greater than that of scholars. Sri

Authenticity soothes the soul.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.

Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour.

To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of faith for himself.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

The only certain rule is the one that Aristotle already gave: do not dispute with anyone and everyone, but only with those people you know who are intelligent enough to avoid saying things that are so stupid as to expose themselves to humiliation, who appreciate the truth, and who gladly listen to good reasons, even when the opponent claims them, and who are balanced enough to bear a defeat when the truth is on the other side.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Demopheles: Every man's faith is sacred to him, therefore it should be sacred to you too. Philalethes: I deny your conclusion! I can't see why, because other people are simple-minded, I should respect a pack of lies.

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures. - On Religion