Truth Quotes

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.

Education is the path to revelation. Teach the alphabet and you sow the seeds of rebellion. The free thinker travels light along the road to truth.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the Kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgement and profession of the truth by each one of us.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.