Truth
221 quotes: 6 by Keith Craft, 215 from other voices.
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- If you can’t handle the truth, people will stop telling you the truth.
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- If you want the truth on your side, get on the side of truth.
- If you want to get free, you have to first get honest.
- If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
- Ignorance never settles a question.
- Imperfect knowledge is the parent of doubt: thorough and honest research dispels it.
- In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
- Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
- It is better to hold back a truth than to speak it ungraciously.
- It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humouredly, and so spoiling an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
- It is commonly said that truth is often eclipsed, but never extinguished.
- It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
- It is easy to mistake our prejudice for patriotism, our rationalization for reason, our littleness for logic, our theories for truth, and our fervor for fact.
- It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.Thomas PaineCommonly attributed
- It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- It takes two to speak truth--one to speak and another to hear.
- It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
- Justice is truth in action.
- Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
- Let us endeavour to see things as they are, and then inquire whether we ought to complain.
- Let whatever you are and whatever you do, grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong soil of reality.
- Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
- Lies are like nitro-glycerine--the best of judges can't tell where they are going to burst and scatter confusion.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
- Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it; and with this I begin and end.
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.
- Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
- Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
- Much of our trouble comes from trying to solve our problems without facing facts. You can't bury a lie so deep that it won't sprout trouble.
- Never ignore an important truth merely because of the amount of work it would take to accept it.
- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.