Quotes About Truth

bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Nothing would be further from the reality.

For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

My soul has ever abhorred the thought that a free man dared not speak the truth.

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

Olay, suçlu olanlar?n aç??a ç?kar?lamamas? nedeniyle Allah'a, dosya ise halledilmiÅŸ say?larak arÅŸive havale edildi." (Herzen, Suçlu Kim?, Tutanak)

WHEN Linacer, a distinguished physician, but bigoted Romanist, in the reign of Henry VIII., first fell in with the New Testament, after reading it for a while, he tossed it from him with impatience and a great oath, exclaiming, "Either this book is not true, or we are not Christians." He saw at once that the system of Rome and the system of the New Testament were directly opposed to one another; and no one who impartially compares the two systems can come to any other conclusion.

I do not steal victory.

In verità, qual è l'uomo che osa dire: "Questo è passato e quello è ancora da venire, questa è realtà e quello è un sogno, questa è una cosa e quella è un'altra"! Ma ogni tanto un lembo del velo che nasconde i misteri della vita si muove, e uno sguardo portentoso ci è concesso, dietro le apparenze che ci circondano.

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Whether God speaks promises, teachings of truth, or commandments, faith accepts them, because it trusts Him. Christ is revealed to us for our faith by the doctrinal statements of the New Testament. But we must grasp Himself, as so revealed, if we are to have faith which saves the soul.

Diaries are terrible liars. They record dramas out of context, encourage paranoia, rearrange facts, are deliberately biased and self-justifying, blind you with irrelevance, censor alternative opinion, exaggerate petty complaints into tragic emblems and, in particular, wallow in the fact that any fool can write about dejection, but describing happiness takes determination and skill. Most diaries are moans in writing, even when the person writing them is happy.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

What to me is truly frightful is not the quality of what everyone agrees on, but the very fact of universal agreement.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,In action faithful, and in honor clear;Who broke no promise, served no private end,Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,No language, but the language of the heart.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.