truth Quotes

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

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Science is nothing but perception.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.