Quotes About Truth

Truth is the bread of a noble manhood.

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words--that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are, at the point of the sword.

Men never _make_ truths; they only recognize the value of this currency of God. They find truths, as men sometimes find bills, in the street, and only recognize the value of that which other persons have drawn.

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.

Faith is the realization of an invisible truth.

We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

We do not say of Love that he is myopic. We do not say of Love that he is astigmatic. We say quite simply, Love is blind. We might go further and say, Love is deaf. That would be a profound and obvious truth. We might go further still and say, Love is dumb. But that would be a profound and obvious lie. For love is always an extraordinarily fluent talker.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

had set out to tell you exactly what happened. But since I am the one writing this, how do I know what in my telling I am selecting, omitting, emphasizing; what unconscious editing I am doing?

A saccharine, easy grace is no grace at all.

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

When it turns out the truth is that loving someone, truly loving them with everything inside you, means getting over your own fears so that you can give them every piece of your heart. Even when it's hard, even when it's scary. Especially then.

Whenever I heard it, whoever said it to me, it felt the same. Like it didn't really mean anything. Because they weren't saying it about the real me. But what if they were? What if everyone who ever said they loved you meant it? How could they? How could any of them have ever meant it when no one but you has ever really known the real me?

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.