Quotes About Truth

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.