Quotes About Truth

The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.

When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

...poetry is not greatly concerned with what a man thinks, but with what is so imbedded in his nature that it never occurs to him to question it: not a matter of which idea he holds, but of the depth at which he holds it.

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.

Life will magnify what you choose to believe.

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.

But probably 2,000 years hence many beliefs of the wise of our day will have come to seem equally foolish. Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Damn the expurgated books! I say damn 'em! The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

What's in the raging flame of banned books burning? Knowledge, truth, learning, courage, freedom, yearning.

They try to burn the Devil out from books, but Angels of knowledge resist the flames of fear.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.

He who sleeps in the raw, is in for a nude awakening.

When one asks for cream one should receive either cream or the information that the establishment in question favors instead a combination of vegetable oil and cancer-causing initials.

It is an absolute fact that shadows are as much colours as lights are...

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple...

There are few things in the world more blinding than race prejudice, and there are but few things more inflexible and persistent. Against the claims of truth and justice, to say nothing of brotherly kindness, it stands like a wall of brass. Reason and common sense dash themselves against it in vain.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

[F]lattery is the prolific parent of falsehood.

The existence of truth is the foundation of intelligence; the fountain of love is the foundation of benevolence; the beginning of movement is the foundation of courage.