Quotes about Truth
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- Oscar Wilde
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
- Richard Sibbes
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
- St. Augustine
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
- Samuel Johnson
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
- Theodore Roosevelt
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
- William Barclay
The Word of God is the creation we behold. And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
- Thomas Paine
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
- John Tillotson