Truth Quotes

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

Clive

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Charles Richte

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso