Quotes About Truth

The ego tries to claim everything for itself, even subverting the soul's longing for Truth into another illusion.

Love is the dominant force, and in its light there is no deception.

There are no shadows in which deceptions can be born, no dance of appearances:

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

It might be wishful thinking, but the very name 'jungle' seemed to reflect a wry left-field humour. Ask half a dozen people how the name came about, though, and you'll get six different answers – and they'll all be true.

A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?

Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death?

Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Hunting after arguments to make good one side of a question, and wholly to neglect and refuse those which favor the other side ... [is] willfully to misguide the understanding; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.