Truth Quotes

"Silence is better than unmeaning words."

"If you would be a real seeker of truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"Those who speak much say little of value."

"Those who are awake live in a shared world, but those asleep turn aside into private worlds."

"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do when one rests and drinks and eats with others."

"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to men if they do not have understanding."

"Forget the rules. Forget the definitions. Just follow your nature."

"What is right changes as the river changes its course."

"The most profound truth is often hidden in simplicity."

"When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself."

"The love of truth is the root of all true virtue."

"The lover of truth must be willing to revise his beliefs."

"In every concealment there is also a revelation; seek the balance."

"A lie may take the throne, but truth shall always wear the crown."

"Truth is like a diamond; it can be viewed from many angles, yet remains unchanged."

"Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know."

"Truthfulness has no form; it cannot be drawn or described."

"Impiety does not lie in rejecting the gods of the many, but in accepting their opinions about the gods."

"A man may escape his enemies, but he cannot escape his conscience."

"To understand being, we must first understand that change itself may be illusion."

"The very notion of plurality leads to contradiction when examined rigorously."

"To claim something changes is to claim it both is and is not—a logical impossibility."

"What we call change might merely be a failure of our minds to grasp eternal truth."

"Being cannot change, for change would require being to become non-being."

"The nature of being must be such that it excludes all becoming and multiplicity."

"Reality cannot accommodate both unity and multiplicity—we must choose which to believe."

"Being alone is true; all else is the confusion of mortal minds."

"Reality is one, eternal, unchanging, and indivisible—all else is human fabrication."

"What we call reality may be the subjective organization of pure paradox."

"Motion and change are the deceptions that hide the true nature of eternal being."