The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
—Thomas Aquinas
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
—Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
—Carl Jung
In every religion there is both truth and falsehood. Try to find the truth in the religion you were born into.
—Leo Tolstoy
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
—George Orwell
Lift up your voice like a trumpet, and preach the truth as it is in JESUS.
—George Whitefield
The most offensive is not their lying – one can always forgive lying – lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth – what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
—Pablo Picasso
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
—Oscar Wilde
If you relate the truth with anger or passion you won’t convince anyone no matter how obvious to you the truth you’re relating is. Relate the truth with kindness and the stupidest person in the world will understand you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that?
To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it.
People have always done so.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“[…]go direct to Christ for truth, and you will preach it strongly, honestly, openly, positively, but you will always preach it with love.”
“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
—Thomas Aquinas
It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
—Blaise Pascal
All people are heading towards God, towards the truth, and they’ll all come together one day.
—Leo Tolstoy
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
—Thomas Aquinas
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Socrates
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
—Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
Only delusions and lies require artificial support. Truth can stand alone. Therefore the true word has no need of superficial, solemn ceremonies. Only lies need such devices.
—Leo Tolstoy
You should not honor men more than truth.
—Plato
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
—Georg Hegel
When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.
We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.
—Plato
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
—Thomas Aquinas