Quotes About Truth

Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

Order is Truth,—each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it: Order and Falsehood cannot subsist together.

The Reality had swept the Formulas away before it.

on les pendit, they hanged them." Brief is the word; not without significance, be it true or untrue!

new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.

Istoria este distilarea zvonurilor.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

So how do we know anything at all, if in fact we do know anything at all?

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity." —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics

Down in the human spirit there is a center that opens on to infinity... Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for truth, we thirst to drink beauty, we yearn to celebrate, we seek to delight, we stretch out to love and be loved. That is why anything less than everything is not enough.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

I've burned all my bridges for the sake of getting as near as I can to the truth. And after years of searching for the truth, you find that that's all you can bear. The truth and nothing but the truth.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.