Quotes About Truth

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.