Quotes about Truth

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.