Quotes About Truth

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.