Quotes on “truth”

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.