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Quotes About Truth

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your goal should be something that feels really right, not forced. Make sure your goal resonates with what's true for you.
~ Jude Bijou
The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.
~ John Knox
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
~ Kabir
All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
~ Ramakrishna
When there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it's with me.
~ R. C. Sproul
I don't exaggerate - I just remember big
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~ Oscar Wilde
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.
~ Shel Silverstein
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~ Arthur C Clarke
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
~ Groucho Marx
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
~ Oscar Wilde
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
~ Alfred Bernhard Nobel
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~ Baltasar Gracian
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
~ James A Michener
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
~ Gore Vidal
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
~ William Butler Yeats
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
~ Thomas Dekker
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
~ Catherine Crowe
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are.
~ Unknown
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach