Quotes About Truth

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

To live in joys that once have been, To put the cold world out of sight, And deck life's drear and barren scene With hues of rainbow light... Ye golden hours of life's young spring, Of innocence, of love and truth! Bright beyond all imagining, Thou fairy dream of youth! I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life — whether they die in obscurity or renown.... Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. Although human beings often attempt self-delusion, we cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves. It will make itself known to us by means of our conscience despite our most strenuous effort to suppress it.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

...words are slippery and tricky creatures, whether they drop from the tip of the tongue or of the pen, and when used in important matters, cannot be too carefully watched or too strongly manacled.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

God is real, unless declared integer.

The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. I feel a much greater interest in knowing what passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.

Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

You can fool some of the people some of the time... But you can't fool Mom!

The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.

...the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Let the sublimated philosopher grasp visionary happiness while pursuing phantoms dressed in the garb of truth! Their supreme wisdom is supreme folly: and they mistake for happiness the mere absence of pain. Had they ever felt the solid pleasure of one generous spasm of the heart, they would exchange for it all the frigid speculations of their lives...