Quotes About Truth

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.

The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

On the back of Sir Richard Frances Burton's compass he engraved an inscription from the Qur'an: Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

I don't know who God is but if I meet Him anytime soon I'm going to get Him in the corner until He tells me the truth.

Satyagraha: the revelation of truth and the confrontation of injustice through nonviolent means.

Nothing, he knew, was ever free.

not many follicles among the oracles.

He let the pieces of the napkin flutter to the floor and said something strange about words being good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is.

We're just not convinced that's the right path. It's not a path, it's a fact.

È una mia vecchia massima che, una volta escluso l'impossibile, ciò che resta, per quanto improbabile, non può essere che la verità ».

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.