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Quotes About Truth

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.
~ Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
~ Timothy Keller
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
~ Oscar Wilde
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you
~ William Shakespeare
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~ Charles Dickens
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
~ Socrates
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
~ Khalil Gibran
Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Socrates
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
~ Jagadish Chandra Bose
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
~ Ayn Rand
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
~ Thomas Paine
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
~ Confucius
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
~ Al-Ghazali
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
~ Jeff Cooper
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
~ Frank Zappa
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
~ Hermann Hesse
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
~ David Hume
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.
~ Ned Kelly