Truth Quotes

"It is a common failing of mankind to wish to appear wiser than we are."

"Honesty may be the best policy, but it is not nearly as profitable as dishonesty."

"Love truth, but pardon error."

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only truth."

"In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess."

"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty."

"In silence, we hear the voice of truth."

"The truth cannot be spoken, only lived."

"Perfection does not exist."

"There is not a single human being who has not something monstrous about him."

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

"The sting of a reproach is the truth of it."

"Skepticism is the first step toward truth."

"The voice of conscience is the voice of truth speaking within us."

"Truth has no fear of questions; only lies do."

"We must choose between the comfort of illusion and the burden of truth."

"One can forgive a man who makes mistakes on the road to truth; one cannot forgive those who deliberately avoid it."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

"False shame accompanies false virtue."

"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."

"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

"The tongue is more dangerous than the sword; it cuts without healing."

"The greatest deception is self-deception."

"Truth demands courage, for it often contradicts what we wish to believe."

"Truth has a voice that grows louder the more it is suppressed."

"Language both reveals and conceals truth."

"The poem creates distance to achieve proximity to truth."

"Purity of expression demands absolute honesty."

"Truth hides in the gaps between language."

"Truth manifests in the particular made universal."