Quotes About Truth

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.