Quotes on Truth

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, _x000D_ _x000D_ I do believe her, though I know she lies.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.