Truth Quotes - Page 64

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

You can't cheat an honest man.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

One truth, many paths.

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful.

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Speak truth to power.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.