Quotes About Truth

All that glitters is not gold Often you have heard that told.

Sit down: thou art no flatterer: I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid!

Oh, you are well tuned now, But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.

And I'll be sworn 'tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge.

On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.

more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain. But

it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain.

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man.

Mr Apse was sixty-three now and Miss Bell was forty-five. Mrs Pope was fifty-nine, Tindall forty-three. Plunkett, reckoned in the village to be about fifty, was in fact precisely that.

Acknowledge the truth of the difficulties, thank the person, and focus on a positive future.

You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.

Truth sometimes does not matter, Quinn. There are those who have decided what they think your brother is, and nothing will persuade them differently, truth be damned.

the father of lies is the Devil - and that mischief and the Devil are never far apart.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Sometimes it seemed that work was the only certainty, the only lasting truth in a human world of fitful change. Work and the mountains remained.

This, then, was what a glimpse of truth might be like; hard as stone, beautiful as stars, satisfying as bread.

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

Eugene saw that God-part of people. He saw that and defined me in that way. The other stuff didn't define me. That was astounding. -Cuba Odneal

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.