Quotes about Truth
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
— GK Chesterton
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
— GK Chesterton
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
— GK Chesterton
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
— GK Chesterton
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
— Gloria Steinem
There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.
— Gloria Steinem
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.
— Gordon Fee
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
— Henri Nouwen
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
— Henri Nouwen
Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.
— Henry B. Eyring