Quotes about Truth

If you want to know the truth about what you've built, you have to ship it. You can test, you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

Set your mind fully on the hope you have in Christ, and be ready to pay any price, challenge any foe, and confront any lie for the sake of the gospel.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.

to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.