The object of the superior man is truth.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
The core of my writing is not art but truth.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.
The truth is we’re all searching. We’re all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I’m by no means someone to follow.
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.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
There’s no truth anymore.
Gossip is called gossip because it’s not always the truth.
Exactitude is not truth.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
In conclusion, truth quotes remind us of the transformative power of authenticity, wisdom, and self-discovery. They inspire us to seek truth in our own lives, to cultivate self-awareness, and to embrace the freedom that comes from living in alignment with our values. Let these quotes resonate with you as you navigate your own journey of truth-seeking and self-discovery, and may they empower you to live a life of authenticity, integrity, and purpose.
