Quotes about Truth
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
— St. Augustine
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
— Jack Kerouac
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science
— Mary Baker Eddy
Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
— Jacques Maritain
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
— AW Tozer
The soul is the truth of who we are.
— Marianne Williamson
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
— Charles Dickens
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
— Paul Tillich
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
— Karl Barth
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
— Thomas Jefferson