Quotes About Truth

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you."

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.