Quotes About Truth

Man's word is God in man.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.