Quotes About Truth

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I desire no other evidence of the truth to Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

All will come out in the washing.

Blue is true, Yellow's jealous, Green's forsaken, Red's brazen, White is love, And black is death.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Open confession is good for the soul.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.