Quotes about Truth

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.