Quotes About Truth

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Man believes and lives.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.