Quotes About Truth

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

A man is hid under his tongue.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.