Truth Quotes

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

~ Wendell Berry

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

~ Charles Spurgeon

The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth is, culture may change, people change, but the Word of God never changes, and that's what we rest our belief system on.

~ Robert Jeffress

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

~ Bobby Darin

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

~ Ellen G. White

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

~ John Nelson Darby

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

~ Ramakrishna

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

~ Shakuntala Devi

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

~ John F. Kennedy

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

~ Malcolm X

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

~ Saint Bernard

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

~ Susan Howatch

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

~ Carl Jung

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

~ Maimonides

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

~ Keanu Reeves

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

~ Rudolf Steiner

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

~ José Rizal

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

~ Thomas Jefferson

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.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

~ Samuel Johnson

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

~ Martin Seligman

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

~ Carl Jung

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

~ Thomas Malthus

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

~ Saint Basil

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

~ Stephen Covey

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

~ Barry White

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

~ Roger Bacon

In truth, I'm not really a cat person. Seamus, the wonder dog, still deeply mourned by all who knew him, was just about the only pet I've ever really loved.

~ Michael Dirda

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

~ Hal Sparks

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

~ Dick Van Patten

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

~ Anne Lamott

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

~ Richard Russo