Quotes about Truth

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.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.