Quotes on Truth

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

I felt like there was something wrong with me in my twenties but, when I started doing stand up comedy, I learnt that if you tell the truth it's really funny and people connect to it. So I think if I keep doing that then I'll be happy.