Truth Quotes

"In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood." "To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful." "Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge" "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" "The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance." "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth" "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." "An honest man is always a child" "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing" "If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud" "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool" "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends" "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution" "The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." "Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them" "Don’t tell me what was said about me... Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you" "Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars." "Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it." "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."