Quotes About Truth

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

The confession of one man humbles all.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

If no meant no then every man would die a virgin.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.