Quotes About Truth

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.

An epitaph should speak the truth.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Don't get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you—with patience and with gentleness. But never water down the truth of God. Let it have its way and never apologize for it. Jesus said, Ã¢â'¬Å"Go . . . and make disciples . . ." (Matthew 28:19), not, "Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.

When Jesus drives something home to you through His Word, don't try to evade it. If you do, you will become a religious impostor. Examine the things you tend simply to shrug your shoulders about, and where you have refused to be obedient, and you will know why you are not growing spiritually. As Jesus said, Ã¢â'¬Å"First . . . go . . . ." Even at the risk of being thought of as fanatical, you must obey what God tells you.

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me.