Quotes about Truth
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
— Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
— William Barclay
The Word of God is the creation we behold. And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
— Thomas Paine
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
— John Tillotson
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
— Confucius
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
— Cormac McCarthy
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw