Quotes About Truth

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.