Quotes About Truth

Ah, o que eu sei, toda a gente o pode saber! Mas o meu coração só a mim pertence…

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Age does not make us childish, as they say.It only finds us true children still.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

Was ich besitze, seh ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten.

Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.

Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

When one is polite in German, one lies.