Truth was the only daughter of Time.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Truth does not do as much good in the world, as its counterfeits do evil.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Art is a means of stirring the greatest number of people by offering them a privileged picture of common joys and sufferings. It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Perhaps men entertain as many truths as falsehoods; have as many good qualities as bad; feel as many pleasures as pains. But we like to malign human nature, in order to try to raise ourselves above the common level, and to acquire for ourselves the respect of which we strive to rob it. We are so presumptuous, that we imagine we can separate our own personal interests from those of humanity in general, and malign the human race without implicating ourselves. This absurd vanity has filled books of philosophy with diatribes against human nature. Man is in disgrace with all thinkers, who rival one another in accusing him of depravity. But perhaps he may be about to rise again and recover all his virtues; nothing is permanent, and philosophy, like clothes, music, architecture, &c, has its vogues.
My way of joking is telling the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Truth endures forever.
One truth cannot conflict with another.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The harmony that holds between truths is like the harmony in a painting.
