Truth Quotes

It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

It is my belief, that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolism in the fate of Ophelia, he now discerns the wrisdom of the sylvan god Silenus: and loathing seizes him.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.