Quotes About Truth

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. ???? ???? ????? ??? ???? ??? ?? ?? ?? ??????? ????? ?? ??? ?? ?? ?????? ?? ???

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine: and of the truth herein This present object made probation.

I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

Examine si ce que tu promets est juste et possible, car la promesse est une dette.

The Master said, "You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it—this is true knowing [zhi].

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

Truth does not depart from human nature. If what isregarded as truth departs from human nature, it maynot be regarded as truth.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Cuando venza la gran verdad, entonces la tierra será propiedad de todos. Se escogerá a los más sabios y a

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

IgnoranÈ›a genereaz? mai des încredere în sine decât cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

The toughest role is real life.

I remember an aunt saying sagely, The good die young. Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

Then why does every sentence beginning 'We need to talk' end in disaster? Our whole evolutionary history has been about trying to stop information from getting communicated—camouflage, protective coloration, that ink that squids squirt, encrypted passwords, corporate secrets, lying. Especially lying. If people really wanted to communicate, they'd tell the truth, but they don't.

There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I'd been struck by lightning for lying.