Quotes About Truth

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

Life is a four-letter word.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.