Quotes about Truth

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

So you think that it is only God who sees the soul? Draw that curtain back, and you will see mine.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

The truth is rarely pure

Rule 1 for solving our problems is: Get the facts. Let's do what Dean Hawkes did: let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.

Love is not God, but God is love. It is who he is, his very identity.

Your thoughts cannot be empty. As the old saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. If you are not entertaining God's truth, you will be entertaining Satan's lies.