Quotes about Truth
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
— Randy Alcorn
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
— Ricky Gervais
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
— Rob Bell