Quotes About Truth

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

I am a man of my word.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.