Quotes About Truth

Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.