Quotes about Truth
She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is
— Isabel Allende
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
— Ashley Montagu
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
— John F. Kennedy
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
— CS Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
— CS Lewis
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
None are so blind as those who will not see.
— Anonymous
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not certain, we are never certain.
— Albert Camus