Quotes About Truth

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Everyone speaks of it, few know it.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

He that jokes confesses.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.