Quotes About Truth

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.