Truth

"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy."

"[S]ome scientists focus on ideal beauty, others on empirical truth. My own approach, following a great tradition going back to Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, has been to use beauty as a guide to truth."

"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."

"The end will show the whole truth."

"Occult historians generally agree that V.V.V.V.V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered the universe"), one of the eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley."

"Truth conceived as God is of course the Absolute. Truth perceived by man must always be relative, changing according to human contacts developing as men understand better each other, their circumstances and themselves."

"The identification of Truth as the goal of political action, as well as of religious devotion, and the refusal to distinguish between religion and politics, form the background to the great divergences between Gandhi's revolutionary ideas and techniques and those of other contemporary revolutionists. … Unorthodox though he might be, Gandhi fitted into the traditional pattern of the sanyassi who practices non‑attachment in the search for Truth; he was the karma yogin, the man who perfects and purifies himself through action. Yogic disciplines of all kinds are held in India to confer power over destiny, and Gandhi believed that positive action — love and nonviolence — could intangibly influence men and therefore events. With Truth as the goal and at the same time as the principle of action (for in Gandhian terms ends are emergent from means and hence virtually indistinguishable from them), there was no place in Gandhi's idea of revolution for conspiratorial methods or guerrilla activities."

"I believe that in the end the truth will conquer."

"Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love."

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."

"There are cases when the simple truth is difficult to tell, When 'tis better that the truth should not be known, So we'd better leave her lying at the bottom of the well, And agree to let both truth and well alone."

"Hell is truth seen too late—duty neglected in its season."

"Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it."

"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear."

"Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key."

"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."

"La vérité n'a point cet air impétueux."

"Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable."

"Magna est veritas et prævalebit."

"Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato."

"Better be cheated to the last, Than lose the blessed hope of truth."

"More proselytes and converts use t' accrue To false persuasions than the right and true; For error and mistake are infinite, But truth has but one way to be i' th' right."

"A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth."

"Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed."

"But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply."

"Nature * * * has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea."

"The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true."

"Truth is immortal; error is mortal."

"When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song."

"The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship."

"Vincer veris."

"But above all things truth beareth away the victory."

"Alius quidam veterum pœtarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriæ non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit."

"Her terrible tale You can't assail, With truth it quite agrees; Her taste exact For faultless fact Amounts to a disease."

"One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed."

"Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Nuda veritas. (Nudaque veritas)."

"Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum."

"Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth."

"The defendant in this case has attacked certain beliefs, thought by the Christian world to be sacred. Yet, after all, nothing is sacred but the truth, and by truth I mean what a man sincerely and honestly believes."

"When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire; Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar."

"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake."

"Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."

"Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong."

"But there is no veil like light—no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth."

"Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex."

"Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light."

"Not a truth has to art or to science been given, But brows have ached for it, and souls toil'd and striven; And many have striven, and many have fail'd, And many died, slain by the truth they assail'd."

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older."

"Love the truth and peace"