Quotes About Truth

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

They love least that let men know their loves.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.