Quotes About Truth

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. " ? Will Rogers

The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways—that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.

when you are running away from something, it often ends up coming with you, especially if the thing you are running away from is your own behavior.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Zo vreemd, zegt ze, dat wij hier nu samen zijn, onbegrijpelijk. Ik denk dikwijls dat er eigenlijk niet veel verschil is tussen leven en dromen. Het verschil is maar schijnbaar, doordat we, als we wakker zijn, alles veel te bevooroordeeld bekijken om te zien dat het leven ook een droom is.

Ik besef plotseling dat ik in een voortdurende vrees leef te moeten bestaan in een maatschappij waar iedereen iedereen voor de gek houdt.

Je bent hier namelijk in de donkere kamer. Maar nergens ter wereld komt zoveel aan het licht als in een donkere kamer.

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma.

Beliefs indeed can create reality.

The material world, as conceived by materialists, however, is continually confused with reality as such.

The good die when they should live, the evil live when they should die; heroes perish and cowards escape; noble efforts do not succeed because they are noble, and wickedness is consumed in its own nature. Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience--it becomes so, if at all, only with time, with infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Doctrine is a Theological Axiom, either consisting in the express word of Scripture, or flowing from them by immediate consequence.

One of their sting-elimination strategies is to pause, when insulted, to consider whether what the insulter said is true. If it is, there is little reason to be upset. Suppose, for example, that someone mocks us for being bald when we in fact are bald: "Why is it an insult," Seneca asks, "to be told what is self-evident?"3

Although all things in excess bring harm, the greatest danger comes from excessive good fortune: it stirs the brain, invites the mind to entertain idle fancies, and shrouds in thick fog the distinction between falsehood and truth.

The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same without as within, when what others know about him is the same truth he knows about himself, he has integrity.

Truth is the oil which lubricates the joints in the Body of Christ.

Three steps to becoming the happy person you were meant to be are: Locate your misbeliefs. (Jerry realized that he was telling himself lies.) Remove them. (He argued against them. "I am not lonely!") Replace misbeliefs with the truth. ("It's nonsense to say I'm unlovable and useless. I'm loved with an everlasting love by the God of the universe. In Him, I have countless talents and uses and I am infinitely valuable to Him.")

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.