Quotes About Truth

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

Tell him... You think it's kinder not to, but it isn't.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made himself to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the right(ness) has to shine What Mahomet also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

You say it as you understand it.

What one believes does not, therefore, have to be proved, and a proposition can be ever so incontrovertibly proven without on that account being believed.

Faith is not the work of reason, and therefore cannot succumb to its attack, because faith arises just as little from reason as tasting and seeing do.

Truth would not let herself be approached too closely by highwaymen; she wore one garment on top of another so that one doubted being able to find her body. How frightening if they had their way and saw that frightful ghost, the truth, before them.

A reader who seeks after truth might become a hypochondriac out of dread.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

She believed she had uncovered a key truth about focus: To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe.

We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.

The writer James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Irving didn't want this to be true—it contradicted his own published work—but he told me, "One thing I do pride myself on is looking at the data, and allowing my mind to be changed when the data's different than I expected.

James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.