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Quotes About Truth

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.
~ Sam Keen
The Truth is the Truth.
~ Max Weber
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
~ Dan Simmons
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
~ Sophocles
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
~ Anais Nin
Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.
~ Mark Dever
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
~ Hypatia
Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.
~ Viktor Schauberger
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
~ William Hazlitt
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
~ Werner Heisenberg
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
~ Serj Tankian
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth.
~ Marie Forleo
To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.
~ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
~ Thomas Jefferson
The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.
~ Benito Perez Galdos
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
~ Aleister Crowley
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
~ George Carlin
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
~ Arthur Balfour
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
~ Linus Pauling
Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.
~ Heraclitus
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
~ Kurt Cobain
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
~ William Penn