Quotes About Truth

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

When men make gods, there is no God!