Quotes | Truth

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Every truth has two sides. It is as well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing him.

Truth is one, paths are many.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

You can win over a greedy person by offering money, a proud person by covering before him. You can win a foolish by agreeing with him and you can win a scholar by truth only.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.