The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
There is no truth. There is only perception.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Humility is truth.
