Quotes About Truth

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Learn what you are and be such.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth And what flies up, though it be but a spark, Shall have weight.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

oath. In Matthew, it says to 'swear not at all', and Quakers felt it implied a double-standard to swear to tell the truth in court when they claimed they maintained

oath. In Matthew, it says to 'swear not at all', and Quakers felt it implied a double-standard to swear to tell the truth in court when they claimed they maintained honesty and integrity at all times.

Ama a verdade até o martírio.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Behold! human beings living in an underground den…. Like ourselves… they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is uttering not a paradox but a truism.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Knowledge is true opinion.