Quotes About Truth

It's nearly full dark. We should go." "We? I thought you were going to leave me alone." "I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say 'I cast out devils, and Jesus will say 'I never knew you.

The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

I'm all right. I was telling the truth. I was all right. I was going to live right on. The house slowly filled up with silence. Nathan's absence came into it and filled it. I suffered by hard joy, I gave my thanks, I cried my cry. And then I turned again to that other world I had taught myself to know, the world that is neither past nor to come , the present world where we are alive together and love keeps us.

All women is brothers,' Burley Coulter used to say, and then look at you with a dead sober look as if he didn't know why you thought that was funny. But, as usual, he was telling the truth. Or part of it.