Quotes About Truth

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

He's true to God who's true to man.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.