Quotes about Truth
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
— John F. Kennedy
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
— CS Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
— CS Lewis
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
None are so blind as those who will not see.
— Anonymous
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not certain, we are never certain.
— Albert Camus
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
— St. Augustine
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.