Quotes About Truth

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.