Quotes about Truth
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
— George Eliot
What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.
— George Weigel
Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
— GK Chesterton
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
— GK Chesterton
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
— GK Chesterton
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
— GK Chesterton
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
— GK Chesterton
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
— Gloria Steinem
There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.
— Gloria Steinem
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.
— Gordon Fee
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie