Quotes about Truth

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Is this old-fashioned? Of course it is. It is as old as truth itself.

If we would individually and collectively resolve to stand for something, to lift our voices for truth and goodness and offer our supplications to our Eternal Father, those supplications would be heard, and the result would be remarkable.

To highlight the mistakes of a person and gloss over the greater good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

He no longer acts from self, but does what is right— what is universally and eternally right.

THE MAN OF TRUTH never departs from the divine principles which he has espoused. He may be threatened with sickness, poverty, pain, loss of friends and position, yea, even with immediate death, yet he does not desert the principles which he knows to be eternally true. To him, there is one thing more grievous, more to be feared and shunned than all the above evils put together, and that is—the desertion of principle.

The measure of a man's truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.