Quotes on Truth

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.