Quotes about Truth
An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.
— Proverbs 24:26
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
— Henry Ward Beecher
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
— Maya Angelou
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
— Frederick Buechner
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
— DL Moody
I desire to know wherefore I am banished?
— Anne Hutchinson
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
— Thomas Merton
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
— Albert Einstein
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
— CS Lewis