Quotes About Truth

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.

The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

Man follows only phantoms.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.