Truth Quotes - Page 38

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

The truth will come out in the end.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!

Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices... A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.