Quotes About Truth

Maths was the one true thing, according to Nancy. Not love? Teddy said. Oh, love, of course, Nancy said, in an offhanded way. Love is crucial, but it's an abstract and numbers are absolute. Numbers can't be manipulated. An unsatisfactory answer, surely, Teddy thought. It seemed to him that love should be the absolute, trumping everything. Did it? For him?

She was real and she was dead. And she was out there somewhere.

The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.