Quotes About Truth

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Faith never makes a confession.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

I've made a picture of the world. It may be right. It may be wrong. But for me it is very real ...

Jane looked up at him. He was not an ugly man, not mean or hateful-looking. But you couldn't go by appearances. Some of the nicest-looking people were really very bad.

In other words, we live in Philip K. Dick's future, not George Orwell's or Aldous Huxley's ... Dick believed that we all live in a world where 'spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political group - and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.

Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?