Truth Quotes

"Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless we love the truth we cannot know it."

"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."

"Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the versions of truth which the same events admit."

"The path to freedom begins with telling yourself the truth about your bondage."

"Your silence gives consent; speak your truth even if your voice shakes."

"There was never anything good or bad save in the opinion."

"Our present-day society is shedding the concept of objective truth."

"Everything that glitters is not gold, and not every difficult path leads to wisdom."

"The test of moral teaching is how it fits with the deepest truths of the human heart."

"The greatest deception is self-deception."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth."

"There is nothing so powerful as the truth."

"Truth emerges from the rigorous examination of conflicting ideas, not from their suppression or forced harmony."

"The strength of an argument rests on the soundness of its reasoning, not on the authority of who utters it."

"The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is."

"The intellect is perfected by truth as the will is perfected by virtue."

"The greatest obstacle to truth is the assumption that we already possess it."

"A thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect."

"Truth is the equation of mind and reality."

"A man may go broke, but a noble nature cannot be bought."

"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you do not like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

"The truth you speak has no past; it has only a future."

"Confusion and perplexity are signs that we are on the threshold of truth."

"You cannot know the full extent of your illness until a physician examines you."

"Nothing is shameful except what is truly base."

"It is better to die than to live in dishonor."

"The oath too much respected makes all virtue empty."