truth Quotes

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.