Quotes about Truth

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

All women is brothers,' Burley Coulter used to say, and then look at you with a dead sober look as if he didn't know why you thought that was funny. But, as usual, he was telling the truth. Or part of it.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. The crisis of this line of thought is the realization that we are at once limited and unendingly responsible for what we know and do.

But I had read all of [the Bible] by then, and I could see that it changed. And if it changed, how could all of it be true?

Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.