Quotes about Truth

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.