Quotes about Truth
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.
— Gordon Fee
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
— Henri Nouwen
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
— Henri Nouwen
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
— Henry David Thoreau
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
— Henry David Thoreau
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.
— Henry Parry Liddon