Quotes About Truth

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straightaway you take away his happiness.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night, Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth, To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth; But these go out and leave us with no light.

We journey up the storied Nile; The timeless water seems to smile; The slow and swarthy boatman sings; The dahabeah spreads her wings; We catch the breeze and sail away, Along the dawning of the day, Along the East, wherein the morn Of life and truth was gladly born.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for both are concerned with the eternal verities of the universe. Believe everything scholars can strictly prove and suit yourself about the rest. Science has nothing to say one way or the other about whether there is a spirit…The evidence lies outside of our present scientific knowledge.

In a world that is being darkened by evil images and dishonest messages, you have been blessed to recognize more easily the flashes of light and truth. You have learned for yourself that light grows brighter as you receive it gladly. It will become brighter and brighter until the perfect day when we will be in the presence of the Source of the light.

Will reading the Book of Mormon now and then ensure faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? You wouldn't count on it if you read Nephi carefully. He said the Holy Ghost is "the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him." Diligently surely means regularly. And it surely means pondering and praying. And the praying will surely include a fervent pleading to know the truth. Anything less would hardly be diligent. And anything less will not be enough for you and for me.

Doctrines That Can Take You To Hell",

extirp all errors, heresies, and other enormities and

Christians alone are not allowed to say anything to clear themselves, to defend truth, to save a judge from injustice. That alone is looked for, which the public hate requires—the confession of the name, not the investigation of the charge. …

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

The gradual change that came over the eleven chosen disciples was not the result of introspection, but of living with their Master, talking to Him, seeing Him work and pray, bringing Him their difficulties, pondering the words of truth that came as the answer to their thoughts. Their desires grew divine because they were "lift upward."

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.