Quotes About Truth

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans].

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Satan seeks to blind us with his lies about God. Instead of the freedom and victory that can be ours, he wants us to be defeated and in bondage. He delights in deceiving us about the character of our God and wants us to believe that God doesn't love us, that He is not good, not in control, not fair, not caring, and any other lie that he can convince us to believe.

Yes, it's good to be able to block things out. But maybe the terrible images persist for a reason: to tell the truth. Which is a terrible and terribly important thing.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography -- but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

May I never grow so strong that my heart cannot be moved. May I never grow so weak that I fear to speak the truth.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...