Quotes About Truth

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Sincerity is the LUXURY allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

To be simple is to be great

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Things are of the snake.