Quotes on Truth

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The older I get, the more I realize the truth is the simpler the food, the more exceptional it can be.

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.