Famous Quotes About truth

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.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.