Quotes About Truth

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

I'm a man of my word.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.