Truth
221 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 215 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Truth
- Communication is not proven by what you said. It is proven by what was understood.
- The more truth you know that has the power to set you free, the more readily you can identify lies that bring bondage and captivity.
- The ultimate truth is to believe what God says and say what God says...about people, places, things...past, present and future.
- You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free, but before it sets you free, it will hack you off.
- Think right about what is Right.
- The real truth is always more important than our opinion of truth.
Other voices on Truth
- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
- A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
- A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He can not touch bottom at all.
- A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll it, the bigger it becomes.
- A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
- A refusal to face reality allows it to stab you in the back.
- A small truth is better than a great lie.Leonardo da VinciSourced
- A true friend is someone who tells you the truth.
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
- Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
- Adversity is the first path to truth.
- Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
- All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
- All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.
- An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.Mahatma GandhiSourced
- An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
- Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy; calmness is a great advantage.
- Be honest about where you are at so that you can get to where you want to be.
- Be honest with yourself, whatever the temptation; say nothing to others that you do not think, and play no tricks with your own mind. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in this world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
- Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
- Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Building trust requires nothing more than telling the truth.
- Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- Complaining profits little; stating of the truth may profit.