Quotes About Truth

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?