Famous Quotes About truth

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

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

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.