Quotes About Truth

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

...the infallible man does not exist.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.