Quotes About Truth

truth, income and wealth increasingly depend on who has the power to set the rules of the game.

the only antidote for big lies is big truth—told relentlessly and powerfully. You must be armed with it.

If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 Jn 4:20).

But in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, this stunning truth is revealed: God is not on the side of the

People in oppressive political situations are so afraid to give voice to their convictions that they lose confidence in the very category of truth and in the power of speech to bring clarity and liberation.

To believe in God is sinful. Only those who KNOW God are without sin. John 10:15

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

Horror is the removal of masks.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? No, I will not sign.

A man takes an oath only when he wants to commit himself quite exceptionally to the statement, when he wants to make an identity between the truth of it and his own virtue; he offers himself as a guarantee. And it works.

The world is deceived by nothing. It must be given something by which to seem deceived.

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

The revealed truths, if they be burdens to reason, are but such burdens as feathers are to a hawk, which, instead of hindering his flight by their weight, enable him to soar toward heaven and take a larger prospect, than if he had no feathers, he could possibly do.

Being told by way of aggravation, that he had eaten half a dozen plumbs, Nay truly, sister, (answers he simply to her) I have eaten half a score. So perfect an enemy was he to a lie, that he had rather accuse himself of another fault, than be suspected to be guilty of that.

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.