Quotes About Truth

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.