Quotes about Truth

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.