Quotes About Truth

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Many a truth is told in jest.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.