Quotes About Truth

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

truth is a letter from courage!