Quotes about truth

"The moment we act as if it's true, then it's true."

Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

He had finally come hardly to look at nothing but the sky, the only thing that truth can see from the bottom of her well.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

We're slow to believe what wounds us.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason; truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

It is as certain as it is marvelous that truth and error come from one source. Therefore one often may not injure error, because at the same time one injures truth.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.

Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

It is a good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lie and find a truth.

Dissimulations is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.