Quotes about Truth
Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.
— John Haggai
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
— John Henry Newman
Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
— John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
— John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
— John Keats
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
— John Lennon
There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.
— John Frame
Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.
— John Frame
People do not risk their lives in the face of persecution to uphold a view they believe to be in error or only somewhat probable.
— John Frame
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
— Elisabeth Elliot
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
— Elizabeth George