Quotes About Truth

There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is — an assemblage of fools and knaves.

All is true, - so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.

Exist? dou? fa?ete ale istoriei, cea oficial?, mincinoas?, care ne este adus? la cuno?tiin?? pentru a fi înv??at? – ad usum delphini – ?i fa?eta secret?, în care se g?sesc adev?ratele cauze ale evenimentelor.

Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.

Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within.

Il existe dans tous les sentiments humains une fleur primitive, engendrée par un noble enthousiasme qui va toujours faiblissant jusqu'à ce que le bonheur ne soit plus qu'un souvenir et la gloire un mensonge

So an honest man is the common enemy.

Nada en los lenguajes humanos, ninguna traducción del pensamiento hecha con ayuda de los colores, los mármoles, las palabras o los sonidos sabría expresar el nervio, la verdad, la finitud, lo súbito del pensamiento en el alma!

Quelque mal que l'on te dise du monde, crois?le ! il n'y a pas de Juvénal qui puisse en peindre l'horreur couverte d'or et de pierreries.

Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.

Le journalisme est un enfer, un abîme d'iniquités, de mensonges, de trahisons, que l'on ne peut traverser et d'où l'on ne peut sortir pur, que protégé comme Dante par le divin laurier de Virgile.

it is evident that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs, exactly as most of the newspapers of the day express nothing but the opinions of their readers.

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me -- I actually took my teachers seriously!

In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

I had now tasted freedom, and I couldn't lie to myself about that.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, "Comrade, don't worry and you will recover." As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, "You will die. I can be of no more help."

We know there aren't little green men running around this planet touching peepees.

Beauty persists. Which, as truths go, complicates all we need to know.

Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus in illam lapidem mittat," he said to me.

when you're lying, it's best to stick as close to the truth as you can.