Truth Quotes - Page 28

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Where there is despair, may we bring hope.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

You should not honor men more than truth.

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. We must also search for truth. The difficult truth Within us and around us. We must devote ourselves to truth. Otherwise we are dishonest And our lives are mistaken. God grant us the strength and the courage To be truthful. Amen

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.