Quotes on Truth

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.