Quotes About Truth

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

We are betrayed by what is false within.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectu-alism and much more, only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good, clean and right.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

"They say so" is half a lie.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.