Quotes About Truth

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Poets have a license to lie.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Man is what he believes.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Among the smaller duties in life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

O thou, by whom we come to God, The Life, the Truth, the Way, The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

'For example' is not proof.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.