Quotes About Truth

It is said that God the Creator is all-knowing. But if that were true, He would have known better.

It is said that the end justifies the means, but that overlooks the crucial detail that only just means will culminate in a just end.

I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Every money message we hold on to contains a fatal flaw; it impressions us in an incomplete world.

When a nation can't admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?

Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all?

there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.

The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they thought people wanted to see, and they had no explanation to give. It wasn't the king they saw. That wasn't the king at all. It was the king's shadow.

They had the unlettered man's respect for the written word. There was something formidable, even sacred, about a book. Only truth, it seemed, could be put in print.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

If a man says, I love God, and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have received from him, That he who loves God ought to love his brother also.

Lippmann declared that "if what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual 'chooses' to 'invent', then we are outside the traditions of civility.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

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