Quotes About Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man. Always the seer is a sayer.

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

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

What you see is what it is!

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Ramachandra Guha