Truth Quotes

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.

I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

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 seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.