Quotes About Truth

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.