Truth Quotes - Page 48

I'm gonna speak the truth until the day I die!

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.