Quotes about Truth
As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
— Dorothy Day
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
— Elie Wiesel
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.
— Ellen White
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
— Epictetus
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
— Epictetus
Truth should never travel faster than love.
— Erwin McManus
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
— George Bernard Shaw
When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.
— George Bernard Shaw
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
— George Eliot
What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.
— George Weigel
Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
— GK Chesterton