Quotes About Truth

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

Every touch a lie. I have paid her so much false coin that she half thinks she's rich.

The Communists are superb liars. They are quite capable of delivering a fat lie so convincingly, or at least vehemently, that even their victim will later apologize for having erred.

The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.") [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it...

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close the eyes,. But it is wisdom to believe the heart.