Quotes About Truth

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

I'm your only one... but what you call monogamy is lying to everyone.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die

Some true love turned and not a false turned true.

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

Ignorance never settle a question.

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.