Quotes About Truth

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

Wisdom is only found in trudi.