Quotes About Truth

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.