Truth

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

To thine ownself be true.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.

Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.

Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Above all things truth beareth away the victory.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is and to tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth. That’s what we’ll do.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

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

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.