Quotes about Truth
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
— Samuel Johnson
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
— Stephen Covey
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
— William Hazlitt
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
— Clement of Alexandria
Sometimes the truth is stupid.
— Roger Williams
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
— Francis de Sales
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
— John Keats
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
— Heinrich Heine
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.
— Paul Washer