Truth Quotes

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

"The soul's highest good is the knowledge of truth."

"The body deceives; the intellect reveals truth."

"The material world is a shadow of reality."

"The eternal forms are more real than material objects."

"The material world passes away; the eternal remains."

"Truth is the greatest virtue, for it stands above all others."

"Truth may be hidden, but it cannot be destroyed."

"The pursuit of truth requires courage."

"Truth is often stranger than fiction."

"Truth is a jewel that cuts the hand of those too careless to hold it."

"To make allowances for a man's virtues is not to deny his vices."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."

"For to err in opinion, though it be not according to knowledge, is safer than to find out some truth by evil means."

"The false have not anything of their own."

"What is true and what is false are not always manifest."

"Nothing is so unbelievable as an obvious fact."

"I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare."

"There is as much difference between me and myself as between me and others."

"I hate false protestations of virtue from those who seek only praise."

"The greatest deceptions are often dressed in the clothes of virtue."

"We should be careful not to believe what we wish to be true."

"We deceive ourselves more often than we are deceived by others."

"Man is always prey to his truths; once he admits them, he cannot free himself from them."

"Seek truth not for the sake of power, but for the sake of understanding."

"Every mathematical proof is a conversation with truth itself."

"We must never confuse popularity with truth, nor consensus with knowledge."

"We must not allow the opinions of the multitude to distract us from the pursuit of truth."

"The material world is but a shadow of the intelligible realm."

"We must learn to see through the eye of the soul, not merely the eye of the body."