Quotes about Truth
The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.
— Henry B. Eyring
We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
— Henry B. Eyring
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
— Henry David Thoreau
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
— Henry David Thoreau
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
— Henry David Thoreau
I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
— Henry David Thoreau