Quotes About Truth

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Everyone is right in his/her point of view but not necessarily on RIGHT

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight.

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind. Remember my example, and be wise: When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.

All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind.   CLITANDRE

Je puis croire ces mots, un artifice honnête. Je ne me fierai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire, Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

Kogu inimkond on nii vastik rämps ja park, et mind solvata võiks, kui näiksin neile tark.

Je veux qu'on soit sincère, et qu'en homme d'honneur, On ne lâche aucun mot qui ne parte du coeur.

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

Así va el mundo. Muchos adquieren opinión de doctos, no por lo que efectivamente saben, sino por el concepto que forma de ellos la ignorancia de los demás.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.