Quotes about Truth
What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?
— Euripides
O cruel Truth, is this thine home-coming?
— Euripides
If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.
— Euripides
I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm thirty,' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The case being tried involves a question of ultimate truth — the question of who God is and where he stands; and for just that reason, it is God who will inevitably do the judging.
— Fleming Rutledge
One foundational truth that I have learned from apocalyptic theology, it is this: God is the subject of the verb. God doesn't need us to help him make his "dream" come true; God is on the march far ahead of us, bringing his purposes to pass.
— Fleming Rutledge