Quotes About Truth

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Being right does not always bring satisfaction

Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world. And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.

The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them

When later generations come to read about our history they will think they are reading a romance, and not believe a word of it.

That sounds like bulshytt!

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.