Quotes About Truth

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

Truths kindle light for truths.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

It is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

This is all for me to tell of the war, and of our after hardships. The story will be for people who come after us. For them to see, to know what was done here. Reasons for the war, never before told. Nobody to help us tell our side -- the whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told.

The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority of the state is already thrown over by the authority of conscience. ... I fear for those yet unborn, that they are already betrayed. Robbed of the truth we can inherit, they will know their sins as only misery, and their forgiveness they will not know at all because they do not know God. Then at last men will be free of God. Then they will be slaves indeed.

Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they're liars and spies, Max was thinking, "Hamlet cares only about the truth, or only he cares about the truth, and it's so hard to find, too hard for anyone to find. Where is it?

Lying as a way of life is a dangerous game", the Pole went on. "And not just because you risk the vengeance of the NKVD. You risk the integrity, the coherence, of your own soul.

the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything's a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold

Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes." St. Matthew 11:25.

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." — Lucy Parsons

If the great body of the people have clamored for our comrades' blood, it was because they believed what the lying monopolistic press has said.

Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

Der Religion ist nur das Heilige wahr, der Philosophie ist nur das Wahre heilig.

Faith discriminates thus: This is true, that is false. And it claims truth to itself alone. Faith has for its object a definite, specific truth … One thing alone is truth, … God … ; all other gods are vain idols.