Quotes About Truth

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Washington newspaper men know everything.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

No honest man will argue on every side

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.