Quotes about truth
truth honest candor
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. George MacDonald
truth honesty coffee
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. Emily Post
truth
What is true is true, and what is false is false... Emanuel Swedenborg
truth character men
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
truth confusion needs
The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue. Elizabeth Fry
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words can never get at the truth. Katherine Anne Porter
truth odd
The truth will make you odd. Judy Blume
truth-is absolute-truth constant
Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original. Josh McDowell
truth believe tiny
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do. Leonard Cohen
truth tests aphorism
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." John Keats
truth-is officials
Official truth is not actual truth. Lord Acton
truth truth-is
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished. Livy
truth honesty government
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. Lyndon B. Johnson
truth-is bigs concepts
Truth is a big concept. Lukas Foss
truth years birth-place
Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified. Lucy Stone
truth use sides
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
truth errors may
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. Louis Aragon
truth names fire
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. Lord Byron
truth soul secret
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
truth humble good-man
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society. Lord Chesterfield
truth lying men
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.
truth views long
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.
truth character men
It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.
truth believe men
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it. Mahatma Gandhi
truth successful victory
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.
truth men truth-is
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
truth commitment consistency
My commitment is to truth not consistency.
truth giving-up two
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
truth humanity destruction
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
truth ideas pursuit
I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
truth promise debt
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.
truth cutting roots
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
truth abstract prove
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.