Quotes About Truth

The truth is the thing I invented so that I could survive.

But really he just wanted to steal a little more time before he had to go back home again where the truth would be waiting.

Looking at his reflection in the dark window, Litvinoff believed something had been peeled away and a truth revealed to him: He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in any way original. And though he was wrong in every way about this, after that night nothing could dissuade him.

There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.

But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country's economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the forces of production and increased productivity. Of course, the Cultural Revolution had done just the opposite. Official lies like this, habitually indulged in and frequently displayed by the authorities, served no purpose except to create the impression that truth was unimportant.

Truth...a mobile army of metaphors.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Hence the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire...

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be frightening and ugly," then they need to search.

it is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

We must be sure that when you have won victory, you will not have to tell your children that you fought in vain—that you were betrayed. We must be sure that in your homes there will not be want—that in your schools only the living truth will be taught—that in your churches there may be preached without fear a faith in which men may deeply believe.