Quotes About Truth

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Appearances are deceiving.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.