Quotes about Truth

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'