Quotes About Truth

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices.

Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any body knows

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.