Quotes about Truth

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.

Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.