Truth Quotes

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contempti" "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." "Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find." "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." "It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked" "An honest man's the noblest work of God" "If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty" "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things" "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true" "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me" "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within"