Quotes about Truth

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.