Quotes about Truth
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
— Maya Angelou
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
— Frederick Buechner
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
— DL Moody
I desire to know wherefore I am banished?
— Anne Hutchinson
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
— Thomas Merton
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
— Albert Einstein
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
— CS Lewis
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
— GK Chesterton
I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.
— TobyMac
For me, a thing must exist before I know it, but with God, it is different - he must know it before it has existence.
— Mother Angelica
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson