Quotes About Truth

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.