Quotes about Truth
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
- Confucius
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
- Cormac McCarthy
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- George Bernard Shaw
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
- Oswald Chambers
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
- Abraham Lincoln
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
- Mark Twain
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti