Quotes About Truth

If I ever said in grief or pride, I tired of honest things, I lied.

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

And the thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.