Quotes About Truth

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

believe that at least twenty percent of autopsies nationwide reveal that the initial theory of the cause of death is wrong.

In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The issue is not, as Packer caricatured it, whether the proposition God is love expresses the complete truth about God. The issue is whether it expresses a truth about the very nature or essence of God—whether, in other words, it ascribes (what a philosopher would call) an essential property to the very being of God.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

in the true order everything is seen from within.

Whatever we believe does, for us, in very fact exist. Our beliefs may be erroneous from the point of view of a happier belief, but this does not alter the fact that for ourselves our beliefs are our realities, and these realities must continue until some ground is found for a change in belief.

A woman always thinks it takes two to keep a secret, but I'm here to say I think it takes one.

The history written, taught, and sworn to as 'the unvarnished truth' by the establishment—any establishment, left or right, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or fascist—is generally revisionist, narrow in perspective, monolithic, and agenda-driven. In the worst case, it consists of one part denial and one part propaganda—in other words, a self-serving pack of lies.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.

When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.

Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.

As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

The best mirror is not that which is most gilded, but that which shows the truest face.

To seem to be zealous, if it be not according to the word, is not obedience, but will-worship.

men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.

What is the reason the word works so differently? It is because the Spirit of God carries the word to the conscience of one and not another. One has receive the divine unction and not the other.