Quotes About Truth

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?