Quotes on “truth”

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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?