Quotes About Truth

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

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

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.

One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Biography is higher gossip.

Gossip needs no carriage.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.

I heard the little bird say so.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.