Quotes about truth

Truth is at the door, howling and stamping her foot. Truth is not always decorous.

The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.

The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

Most people go through life never knowing the truth about the major events of their time. They're watching a farce performed at the edge of the stage while the real drama is going on behind the curtain.

There was no need to worry about religion or philosophy; the truth was determined by whoever was in power.

My spiritual education...took place at a Unitarian Church...The theme was "many paths to the truth." …even the inconsistencies were illuminating. It became apparent to me that the basic truths were profound enough to transcend apparent contradictions.

We want truth and find only uncertainty in ourselves.

We seek happiness and find only wretchedness and death.

We are incapable of not wanting truth and happiness and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

All the principles of skeptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also true.

We have an incapacity of proof, insurmountable by all dogmatism. We have an idea of truth, invincible to all skepticism.

A strange justice that is bounded by a river! Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other side.

Contradiction is a bad sign of truth; several things which are certain are contradicted; several things which are false pass without contradiction. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone. We should therefore act as if we were alone, and in that case should we build fine houses, etc.? We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.