Quotes about Truth
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.
— John Maxwell
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
— Tertullian
An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.
— Proverbs 24:26
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
— Henry Ward Beecher
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
— Maya Angelou
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
— Frederick Buechner
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
— DL Moody
I desire to know wherefore I am banished?
— Anne Hutchinson
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
— Thomas Merton