Quotes About Truth

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.