Truth Quotes - Page 50

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.