Quotes about Truth
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
— Carl Sagan
If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.
— Alistair Begg
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
— Albert Schweitzer
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
— David O. McKay
The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.
— Barack Obama
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
— William James
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.
— Rachel Held Evans
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.
— Khalil Gibran
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
— William Wordsworth
O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
— Wendell Berry
When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.
— David Jeremiah