Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Speak the truth and shame the Devil.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things.
The truth shall make you free.
There is no truth in him.
Words of truth and soberness.
Speak every man truth with his neighbour.
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth
A poem isnât important because of the biographical truth of the content.
The truth is fabled by the daughters of memory
The power of the poet pulsed blood through his body. The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
So a useless truth obtrudes on to a most ravishing lie. I would say finally that, as the earth turns and the truth of summer and the lie of winter interchange, so the bulky ball of history revolves, and what a man dies for may become the thing that dies for him.
Life's all telling lies nowadays. All cheating and being a stranger to the truth.
The great truth of the world's injustice had been established for me
