Quotes about Truth
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
— Randy Alcorn
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
— Ricky Gervais
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
— Rob Bell
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.
— Rob Bell
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
— Rob Bell
God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
— Robert Frost