Quotes about Truth

we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

I have spoken, you have heard, you have the facts, judge

a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.