Truth Quotes

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride.

Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

The light that shone in this country [Gandhi] was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.