Truth Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“animal and plant are the descending fifth and third of man, the inorganic kingdom being the lower octave. The full truth of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The only safe rule, therefore, is that which Aristotle mentions in the last chapter of his Topica: not to dispute with the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“In endless space countless luminous spheres, round each of which some dozen smaller illuminated ones revolve, hot at the core and covered…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer