Quotes About Truth

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.