Quotes About Truth

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

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

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.