Quotes About Truth

Por que en ti reconocemos al que proclamo la mas grande de las libertades humanas; la libertad de dudar, y por que moriste entre inmortales, orgullosos de ser mortal...!

Soy la vida, la Manzana-Rosa del Ave del Paraíso; soy la mentira de todas las cosas reales, la realidad de todas las ficciones!

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Honesty's the best policy.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

To give the devil his due.

All is not gold that glitters.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate. The feeling of the vanity of the passing world kindles love in us, the only thing that triumphs over the vain and transitory, the only thing that fills life again and eternalizes it.

Sometimes to be silent is to lie.

La verdad? La verdad [...] es acaso algo terrible, algo intolerable, algo mortal; la gente sencilla no podría vivir con ella.