truth Quotes

Authority is no source for Truth.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

"I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me."

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

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

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

"Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man."

“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails... ...

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."