Quotes About Truth

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore

What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

If you have an opinion, and that opinion is weak, do not consider it wisdom. - Tiresias to Pentheus

O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart?

O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?

There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. They will not wait to learn a man's true character; Though no wrong has been done them, one look - and they hate. - Medea

There liveth not in my life any more The hope that others have. Nor will I tell The lie to mine own heart, that aught is well Or shall be well…. Yet, O, to dream were sweet!

Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?

Scowlers—I tell thee truth, no more nor less— Life is not life, but just unhappiness

Cine ?tie, se poate ca via?a s? fie moarte iar moartea s? fie via??.

O Zeus, perché hai dato ai mortali indizi chiari dell'oro che risulti falso, mentre nel corpo degli uomini non vi è impresso alcun segno con cui riconoscere il malvagio?

O God, you have given to mortals a sure method Of telling the gold that is pure from the counterfeit; Why is there no mark engraved upon men's bodies, By which we could know the true ones from the false ones?

O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?

If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

Look at it steadily; come closer to the truth. I see-- O, gods, what horror! Oh, what misery!

Wisdom lies in clarity.