Truth Quotes

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.

“We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They’d rather not speak to you than know what you really think.