Quotes About Truth

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

I care more about what God knows than what man says.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.