Quotes about Truth
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
— Oscar Wilde
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
— Kevin DeYoung
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
— Mark Twain
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
— Nicky Gumbel
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
— Walt Whitman
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
— Adrian Rogers
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
— George Bernard Shaw
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
— Cicero
One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.
— George W. Bush
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
— Will Rogers
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
— Alexander Hamilton