Quotes about Truth

We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no history; only biography.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

What you see is what it is!

Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.

Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.