Quotes About Truth

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.