Quotes about Truth
Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before anyone. Embodied within this simple principle and character trait rests the foundational virtue of every person and of every society.
— Gordon Hinckley
Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth; in the Book of Mormon as a testimony of the living Christ. Believe in the Church as the organization which the God of Heaven established for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations of time.
— Gordon Hinckley
The greatest job that any woman will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. There is no other thing that will compare with that, regardless of what she does.
— Gordon Hinckley
Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
— Gordon Hinckley
Is this old-fashioned? Of course it is. It is as old as truth itself.
— Gordon Hinckley
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.
— Gordon Hinckley
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.
— Gordon Hinckley
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
— Lily Tomlin
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
— Mark Twain
The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
— Ralph Waldo Emerson