Quotes About Truth

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

What man is, only history tells.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.