Quotes About Truth

Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching are but a more glorious hypocritical sinning if the ends are not right.

Truth loves the light and is most beautiful when it is most naked. If you would not teach men, why are you in the pulpit? If you would teach men, why do you not speak so as to be understood?

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied.

Esteem the church fathers and other writers, but value none of them as equivalent to the word of God.

I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).

Cassius Gallio had been right, but being right was overrated. Being smart was safer.

the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.

That's what made it worse, in the end ... when he found out. Nixon had lied to him, personally.

Shi Zhe wrote in his memoir, "and if you didn't confess you were tortured and stayed in prison. The more stories you made up the better you were treated.

The Communists had mounted an attack and then used it in a propaganda campaign, utterly unhinged from the truth, whose purpose was to portray the United States as an imperialist enemy. This was to be the pattern for the next twenty-six years, during which tens of thousands of Chinese and American young men were killed in wars that needn't have taken place.

It was a repetition of the familiar Communist pattern of seizing upon some incident, justifiably or otherwise, and embroidering thereon without regard to truth and accuracy to form the basis for an almost hysterical campaign of vituperation," Marshall concluded wearily.

Nothing is sadder than an old whore.

diga lo que piensa y crea en lo que dice"; de preferencia, dígalo con pocas y bien escogidas palabras.

The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

SURFACE. The license of invention some people take is monstrous indeed. MARIA. 'Tis so but in my opinion, those who report such things are equally culpable.

Graced by those signs which truth delights to own, The timid blush, and mild submitted tone: Whate'er she says, though sense appear throughout, Displays the tender hue of female doubt; Deck'd with that charm, how lovely wit appears

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us.

Iselin is a man who shall forever stand guard at the door of the mind to protect the people of this great nation from facts.

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

And sometimes, the "best" stories are the "true" ones!