Quotes About Truth

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.