The truth is that the Bible’s picture of Jesus possesses a wonderful unity.
—J. Gresham Machen
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
—Søren Kierkegaard
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
—Thomas Jefferson
All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
—Thomas Jefferson
Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.
—George Washington
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
—Marcus Aurelius
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
—Ernest Hemingway
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Men don’t like to have Christ preached faithfully; but it is just what they don’t like to have that we must give them. I learned that long ago. The very truths that men object to, and that make them angry, are the truths that bring them to the cross of Christ.
—D. L. Moody
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
—Aristotle
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
—Henry David Thoreau
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.
—Blaise Pascal
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
—Mark Twain
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
—Thomas Aquinas
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
—Sigmund Freud
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
—Nikolai Gogol
There is truth in wine and children.
—Plato
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to see the truth.
—Plato
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
—Oscar Wilde
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
—Plato
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
—Socrates
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
—Socrates