Quotes about Truth
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
— John Wesley
Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
— Joseph Wirthlin
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...
— Jack Kerouac
Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
— Roy Bennett
These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
— John Milton
Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
— John Milton
Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought the better fight, who single hast maintained against revolted multitudes the cause of truth, in word mightier than they in arms.
— John Milton
Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
— John Milton
But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
— John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
— John Milton
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
— John Milton
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old when all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones forget not.
— John Milton