Quotes About Truth

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.