Truth
221 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 215 from other voices.
Other voices on Truth
- ‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
- Dare to be true. Nothing can need a ly: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
- Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.
- Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.
- Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
- Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
- Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.
- Ego is about who’s right. Truth is about what’s right.
- Every duty which we omit, obscures some truth which we should have known.
- Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
- Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
- Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage.
- Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
- Flattery is a base coin which gains currency only from our vanity.
- Flattery is a false coinage which would have no currency but for our vanity.
- Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.
- Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
- Go to your task with love in your heart and you will go to it light-hearted and cheerful.
- Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.
- Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.
- He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity.
- He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do, exercises the truest humility.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
- Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
- Honesty needs neither disguise nor ornament.
- Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
- I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
- I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
- I would rather offend you with the truth than please you with flattery.
- If a crooked stick is before us, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
- If an offence come out of the truth, better is it that the offence come, than the truth be concealed.
- If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
- If fun is good, truth is still better, and love most of all.
- If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, “tell the truth.”
- If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.
- If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.
- If you can’t be honest with yourself, you can’t fix yourself. Admitting you have a problem is the first step for a good reason.