Truth

By doubting we come at truth.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

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

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.

Truth alone wounds.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.