Quotes About Truth

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. —PSALM 145:18

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. —Philippians 4:8 NKJV

I CAME INTO YOUR LIFE TO MAKE YOU FREE. If you're involved in hurtful relationships, I will help you change them or break free; if you are trapped in addictions, I will help you take the first step toward freedom—honest confession of the truth. In every situation, the truth will set you free.

Sometimes it's not good for people to find out who you really are.

We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!

Truthful, tick. Gentle, tick. Fearless? Well, she'd never told her daughter she'd disappointed her before, so tick, tick, tick.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you." —Maya Angelou

People were so scared of telling the truth because the truth was chaotic and complicated and decidedly uncool, but uncool was the way I rolled. Or it would be if I used tired old phrases like 'That's the way I roll', which I so don't.

Secrets aren´t the same as lying.

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and...and...she reacted so beautifully.

Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

To pander to those who have no stomach for straight language, and insist upon bland, non controversial sauces, is a waste of time. They cannot on deliberately will not understand what we are discussing here.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Most of us view the world not as it is but as we would like it to be. The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins—that is, until the late evening newscast, when suddenly we are plunged into the world as it is.* Political

Some part of a mistake is always correct.

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him his fish fingers (because after all, nuns haven't got anything else better to do, and none of them are ever going to be priests or become the Pope, because women aren't good enough for that), then something was very wrong. How could he have missed the bit about everyone being equal in the eyes of God?