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Hypatia:
  • Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

    • Elvis Presley:
  • Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

    • Christina Rossetti:
  • What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

    • Hypatia:
  • Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

    • Menander:
  • The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

    • Pushkin:
  • A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

    • Thomas Mann:
  • A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

    • Nadine Gordimer:
  • The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

    • Gabrielle Roy:
  • The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

    • Wollstonecraft:
  • Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

    • Verdi:
  • Copying the truth is a good thing, but discovering the truth is much better.

    • Kepler:
  • Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

    • A. Edgar Poe,:
  • Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

    • Schubert:
  • You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

    • Jack Kerouac:
  • The only truth is music.

    • Mark Twain:
  • If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything

    • Herman Melville:
  • Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

    • Giordano Bruno:
  • Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

    • Calderon:
  • In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it”

    • Bataille:
  • I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction

    • Hatim:
  • He who speaks the truth is always tranquil.

    • Faulkner:
  • “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.”

    • Carl Sandburg:
  • There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

    • George Byron:
  • Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

    • Jim Morrison:
  • Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

    • Pindar:
  • Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

    • Menander:
  • Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

    • Gustave Courbet:
  • Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

    • Isaac Newton:
  • “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

    • Lenin:
  • A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

    • Edna Milley:
  • My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

    • Elytis:
  • “If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”

    • Bataille:
  • The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

    • Krishnamurti:
  • I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

    • Wanda Landowska:
  • Friendship is more important than truth.

    • Hypatia:
  • In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

    • Darwin:
  • To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

    • Ibsen:
  • The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

    • Cervantes:
  • The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

    • Dorothy Parker:
  • “There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

    • Plinius Gaius:
  • Truth comes out in wine.

    • Diderot:
  • We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

    • Pittacus:
  • "Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

    • Georges Braque:
  • Truth exists; only lies are invented

    • Walt Whitman:
  • “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

    • Elder the Pliny:
  • Truth comes out in wine.

    • Galileo Galilei:
  • “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

    • Amos Oz:
  • Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

    • Vonnegut:
  • New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

    • Nietzsche:
  • And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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

    • Schopenhauer:
  • All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

    • Petrarca:
  • To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

    • Isaac Newton:
  • Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

    • John Locke:
  • 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.

    • Giordano Bruno:
  • Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

    • John Milton:
  • Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

    • Henry Thoreau:
  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

    • Guru Nanak:
  • There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.

    • Seneca:
  • We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

    • Tennyson:
  • "A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies."

    • Giordano Bruno:
  • It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

    • Rolland:
  • Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

    • Lamartine:
  • Utopias are often just premature truths.

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

    • Spinoza:
  • “In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

    • Valery Paul:
  • Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

    • Virginia Woolf:
  • If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

    • Jules Verne:
  • Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

    • Aeschylus:
  • In war, truth is the first casualty

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

    • Schiller:
  • Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.

    • Confucius:
  • The object of the superior man is truth.

    • Cicero:
  • The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.

    • Laozi:
  • Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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