Quotes about Truth
It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
— John Ortberg
To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.
— Ayn Rand
Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent--always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
— Andrew Jackson
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
— Herman Melville
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
— CS Lewis
Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.
— Charles Spurgeon
Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
— John 14:6
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
— Chuck Colson
The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.
— Haddon Robinson
Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
— Thomas a Kempis
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Cicero
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
— Cicero