Quotes About Truth

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and in its music. Bodies never lie.

For, truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen...

Emily Dickinson is a good example of the visionary who sets down her little glimpses of truth or beauty in the condensed forms in which they flashed into her mind, without effort to expand and interpret, probably without the ability to do so. Her poems will never be enjoyed by a multitude of readers because she never sought to reach the many. The few who enjoy will do so by reason of the fact that they are themselves supplying all of the expansion and interpretation.

Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves...? We live by exaggeration. What else is it to anticipate more than we enjoy? The lightning is an exaggeration of the light. Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

...we find what he says true, as far as we have experienced, and we can judge no further but by larger experience — for axioms in philosophy are not axioms till they have been proved upon our pulses. We read fine things, but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

The face is more honest than the mouth will ever be.

Don't ask questions of fairy tales.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

Fire and pride cannot be hid.

A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself.

Some people talk about finding God — as if He could get lost.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

"They say" is often a great liar.

Some one says it is a lie. Well, I am reminded by that of the remark of the witty Irishman who said, "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

An ill man is worst when he appeareth good.