Quotes about Truth
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
— St. Augustine
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.
— Tony Hale
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
— Stanley Hauerwas
It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.
— Tony Hale
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
— Abraham Lincoln
You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
— Miranda Hart
As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.
— Tony Evans