Truthfulness Quotes (page 136)

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• faith
• leaving
• free

To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of faith for himself. Arthur Schopenhauer

• him
• philosophical
• enemy

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) Plato

• powerful
• love
• fear

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not... John Piper

• dark
• light
• saying

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light. Friedrich Nietzsche

• art
• oath
• truthful

Against an oath; the truth thou art unsure. William Shakespeare

• thinking
• brainly
• church

Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. Robert Green Ingersoll

• imagination
• learning
• lawyer

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture. Yevgeny Zamyatin

• memories
• memorial
• truthful

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth. Igor Stravinsky

• feeling
• writing
• people

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Brenda Ueland

• liars
• evening
• mostly

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Henry Miller

• thinking
• preferred
• preference

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. Terry Prachett

• thousand
• illusions
• thousands

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. Anton Chekhov

• good
• shine
• hero

To hear the tales told at night-time hearths you would think we had made a whole new country in Britain, named it Camelot and peopled it with shining heroes, but the truth is that we simply ruled Dumnonia as best we could, we ruled it justly and we never called it Camelot. Camelot exists only in the poets' dreams, while in our Dumnonia, even in those good years, the harvests still failed, the plagues still ravaged us and wars were still fought. Bernard Cornwell

• die
• heart
• men

I don't believe that he thinks about His glory except for the sakeof truth and men's hearts dying for the lack of it. George MacDonald

• may
• speak
• speaking

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth. George R. R. Martin