Quotes about Truth
Man is God truly alive
— St. Augustine
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
faith is only as good as its object.
— Sam Storms
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
— Samuel Beckett
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
— Samuel Beckett
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
— Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
— Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson