Truth Quotes

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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Michel de Montaigne

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Michel de Montaigne

In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Theodore Roosevelt

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

Michel de Montaigne

Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Abraham Lincoln

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Thomas Jefferson

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

Henry David Thoreau

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.