Truth Quotes

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.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.