Quotes About Truth

The eyes have undressed things that hands have dressed.

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

The path of truth has meadows of falsity. (Le chemin de la vérité A des prairies de fausseté.)"

Truth is like a flying bird: It brakes suddenly, it falls to the ground. (Vérité est comme un oiseau qui vole: Il freine d'un coup, il tombe au sol)

We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)

We don't look at the Sun of Truth, but we look at the Truth effects. (Le soleil de la vérité Ne se regarde, mais ses effets)

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

I don't believe there's no sich a person!

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so.

The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.