Quotes about Truth
We judge all things according to the divine truth.
— St. Augustine
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
— St. Augustine
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.
— Samuel Johnson
Jesus communicated parables to the secular people around him and he used stories that were very relevant to their lives, and He was taking heaven's truth and packaging it in an earthly context.
— Stephen Kendrick
He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.
— Thomas Jefferson
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.
— Thomas Jefferson
Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.
— Thomas Jefferson
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
— Thomas Merton
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
— Thomas Merton