The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer | Truth, Prejudice
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer | Truth
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair – why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
John Jay Chapman | Vision of Truth
A thing is not the truth till it is so strongly believed in, that the believer is convinced that its existence does not depend upon him.
John Jay Chapman | Truth
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Facts, Truth
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth, Illusion
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Lie, Truth
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth, Knowledge
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler – Fool, Truth
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne – dare to tell the truth
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Michel de Montaigne – Truth
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot – Truth, Wisdom
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
