Quotes to inspire and reflect

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Truth alone wounds.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer’s hand.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, uless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him alright.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Truth is always strange.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Time discovers truth.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

The object of the superior man is truth.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

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

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.