Quotes on “truth”

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?