Truth Quotes

• Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Purpose
  • Sun

• Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Great
  • Future
  • Light

• There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

  

  Philip Roth
  • People
  • World
  • Lies

• We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Why
  • May
  • Nature

• The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Truth
  • Style
  • Serious

• Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • People
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Opinion
  • Moral

• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Intuition

• The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Independence
  • Attainment

• One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.

  

  Fae Myenne Ng
  • Truth
  • Another
  • Opened

• The meaning of religious truth is hope.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Religious

• The intellect is prompted by nature to comprehend the whole breadth of being. ... Under the concept of truth it knows all, and under the concept of the good it desires all.

  

  Marsilio Ficino
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I'd love to say that I'm this brave person doing this big adventure and that it's easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, 'What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?'

  

  Megan Shull
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Night

• To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition. Where did that come from? To be sure, you can't favor one denomination over another but can't favor religion over non-religion?

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Truth

• The truth can both lift up and knock down.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Up
  • Lift
  • Knock Down

• Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Powerful

• Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Speaking

• The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

  

  Anne Cassidy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Bad

• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Never
  • Lawgiver

• When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.

  

  Lou Dobbs
  • Truth
  • Reality

• There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Truth

• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Faces

• We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Truth
  • Opinions
  • Helped

• The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Spiritual
  • Study
  • Period

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