Philosophy Quote by Bertrand Russell

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

— Bertrand Russell

“Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.”

— William Butler Yeats

“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”

— Mario Puzo

“Trust no truth offered by man, for how can he know truth when his heart is full of lies.”

— Val Edward Simone

“Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know…

— Anonymous

“I also know that a man, by the way he lives his life, can quickly invalidate whatever arguments or advice he presents to others…

— John Bunyan

“A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his…

— Dennis Lehane

“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”

— John Adams

“Falseness in life is the secret that makes man's inner self a rare truth; it hides from him although it's obvious to all.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”

— Demosthenes