Quotes about Truth
Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.
— St. Augustine
Man is God truly alive
— St. Augustine
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
faith is only as good as its object.
— Sam Storms
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
— Samuel Beckett
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
— Samuel Beckett
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
— Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
— Samuel Johnson