Quotes About Truth

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.