Quotes about truth
truth growing grows
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power. Rabindranath Tagore
truth passion men
Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man. Pythagoras
truth lying knowing-nothing
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato
truth lying character
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
truth truth-is injured
Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
truth opinion awake
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
truth moving roots
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
truth lying dust
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
truth men decision
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
truth men hints
I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.
truth thinking design
The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
truth philosophy tests
Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
truth men charity
For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.
truth past sacred
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
truth forever answers
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
truth truth-is summit
Truth is the summit of being.
truth men gentleman
The gentleman is a man of truth.
truth truth-is evidence
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
truth eye understanding
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
truth honesty lying
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
truth honesty men
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
truth honesty men
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
truth real people
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
truth reality people
The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time. Scarlett Johansson
truthful
Everything I say is 95% truthful. Si Robertson
truth enlightenment sticks
An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth. Shunryu Suzuki
truth people racism
Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. Shirley Chisholm
truth telling-the-truth disappear
Truth disappears with the telling of it. Lawrence Durrell
truth truth-is
Truth is what most contradicts itself.
truth truth-is enigmatic
Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
truth ladders matter
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
truth writing being-there
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth. Laura Riding
truth bells rings
Truth rings no bells.