Quotes About Truth

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.