Truth Quotes

All my life I have felt as if I have been exploring a shore and looking at a few pretty shells here and there, while the whole ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will […]

Civilization has been thrust upon me… and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaing the status quo. If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates […]

It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Communicating with your employees is like being a frightened chunk of marble in a room full of sculptors. They’ll try to chip away at everything you say until by process of elimination they figure out the truth. (“Dilbert”)

If a book is true to what men and women know of one another’s souls it will be true enough, and it will be great and beautiful.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?