Truth Quotes

Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.

The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

I doubt not that it [the Bible] is really ... the best cure for the Blues could one but take it according to the truth.

I planted myself upon the truth, and the truth only, so far as I knew it, or could be brought to know it.

I am not wanting in the purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom from bad influences. ... May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.