Quotes About Truth

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is "useful to get that learned.

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Your book, ' The Tyranny of God ,' is well done. It is a very clear statement of the question, bold and true beyond dispute. I am glad that you wrote it. It is as plain as the multiplication table, which doesn't mean that everyone will believe it. I thank you for writing it. I wish I were the author. { Preface to 'The Tyranny of God by Joseph Lewis }

There is no such thing as justice - in or our of court.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

It's the people on the inside who say, "Yes, we are Christians," and then live as though Christ had never lived.

There is nothing that can tear a person to pieces like religious hypocrisy – teaching one thing and practicing another.

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.

I am only true when I'm alone.